The Hall of Fame Voting Process

What the Hall of Fame voting process produces and what its problems are

The Process

The Baseball Hall of Fame voting process -- the BBWAA ballot that allows writers who have covered baseball continuously for ten years to vote for players who have been retired for five years, with a 75 percent vote threshold for induction -- has produced both the inductions that the baseball community broadly endorses and the specific controversies about who is not inducted that the process reliably generates.

The Problems

The specific problems that the voting process produces: the ballot crowding that the specific player glut from the steroid era has created; the specific steroid question that the voters have not resolved consistently, producing the result that the greatest offensive players of a generation are unelected while their lesser contemporaries are inducted; and the writers whose tenure entitles them to vote but whose baseball coverage has been minimal.

On Deck News Coverage

The On Deck News covers the Hall of Fame voting process because the accountability journalism of the sport history requires examining the process through which the sport determines who its greatest players are, and because the specific controversies about who is in and who is not are the accountability questions that the voting process produces.

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