“I want Jeter to become the first player to be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame unanimously.”
I thought Nolan Ryan was already voted in unanimously. Or did one stinking writer somewhere vote against him because he didn’t play for the Yankees?
Imagine that. Nolan Ryan and Tom Seaver getting more votes than Ty Cobb or Babe Ruth. Put that one in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.
FROM WIKIPEDIA: Seaver was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on January 7, 1992. He received the highest-ever percentage of votes with 98.84% (on 425 of 430 ballots), higher than Nolan Ryan’s 98.79% (491 of 497), and Ty Cobb’s 98.23% (222 of 226). Three of the five ballots that had omitted Seaver were blank, cast by writers protesting the Hall’s decision to make Pete Rose ineligible for consideration. One ballot was sent by a writer who was recovering from open-heart surgery and failed to notice Seaver’s name. The fifth “no” vote was cast by a writer who said he never voted for any player in their first year of eligibility.