[raising3hikers]

griffey just got voted in to the hall of fame with a new record, he received votes on 99.3% of the ballots! don't know why 3 of 440 voters didn't think he was hall of fame caliber but oh well. 1st player that will go in as a seattle mariner.

[Bernardo]

I was always a fan of Ken Griffey Sr. Must be proud of Jr.

[GaliWalker]

[coldrain108]

Glad to see that The HOF voters realized how much Jr's achievments got over shadowed by the cheaters of his era. He should have been alone in those amazing generational numbers, but he got crowded out by A-roid, Sosa, McGuire and Bonds - cheaters one and all. If Jr had been using 'roids to overcome injury (as the other cheats claim to be the case) he would have hit 800 home runs. Those injury seasons late in his career cost him - while Bonds, Sosa and McGuire hit their strides for power well after the peaks of their careers - added years due to 'roid usage, years that Jr lost due to playing clean. There will always be the ones who are contrary just because they can be - the 3 of 440 who didn't vote for him, probably paid off by Bonds, McGuire and Sosa.

[tigermn]

[DIYSteve]

Nobody has ever been voted in unanimously. Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner each got 95.13%, Ty Cobb 98.23%, Hank Aaron 97.83%. See http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Hall_of_Fame_Voting_Percentages

[Chief Joseph]

No one will ever be a unanimous selection, I mean if those guys couldn't get it, no one can! That's just the way baseball works. Kind of like how Edgar will probably never make the hall since he spent most of his career as a DH.

[olderthanIusedtobe]

[DIYSteve]

Well, IMO no position player was ever "far far better" than Ken Griffey Jr. Craziest HOF voting dis is Cy Young @ 76.12%

[Slugman]

I think the three voters were Bonds, McGuire and Sosa. There are some curmudgeons who don't think anyone should go in on the first ballot. Three out of over 400 seems kind of low for the crackpot contingent. So Junior did OK.

[DIYSteve]

One explanation is that each BBWAA gets 10 votes and a few of them use all 10 of their votes to support worthy candidates that were passed over in prior years, knowing that a guy like Griffey Jr. will get plenty of votes on his first ballot.

[Pyrites]

Great to see. 3 didn't vote for him? Do they check sobriety before the voting? Maybe payback. Griffey was known to dole out interviews to the most favored. Drugs. I think the commissioner (won't repeat his name) shouldn't be mentioned in HOF, or should have an asterisk next to his name, with note, "Steroids Era". Home runs sell tickets. Sosa's biceps just exploded in size over one off season. It was too obvious.

[Bernardo]

[meandering Wa]

the times printed a large photo from back in the day, full of smiles and backward cap my god he was so young!!!!! He was a kid which, at the time, I didn't really appreciate how much so he was. I am sorry Dave N is not here to see this. I think it was Dave who ignited the public to really notice

[coldrain108]