For Scott Rolen and Fred McGriff, Sunday will be the highlight of their long, distinguished careers. It is the day they will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. So it is a perfect time to look back on their paths to Cooperstown.
In Rolen’s first year on the writers’ ballot , he received 50 fewer votes than, and had his name checked on only 10.2 percent of all ballots cast. But in Year 3, as the ballot became less overloaded, Rolen’s candidacy took off.
His production was nearly identical in those next 10 seasons. But he made it into the top 10 in each category in only two of those years, as the musclebound sluggers around him were suddenly hitting 50, 60 and 70 homers a year. McGriff never collected 40 percent of the vote in any of his 10 years on the writers’ ballot. But last December, the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee made a statement of its own — by electing him unanimously in his first year on that ballot, voted on by a 16-person group of executives, Hall of Fame players, writers and historians.
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