COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Allie Reynolds, Joe Gordon and Vern Stephens are among 10 players whose careers began before 1943 who will be considered by the Hall of Fame’s constituted Veterans Committee when it meets on Dec. 7.
Bill Dahlen, Wes Ferrell, Sherry Magee, Carl Mays, Mickey Vernon, Bucky Walters and Deacon White also will be on the ballot, the Hall said Monday. The 10 finalists were selected by a committee of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America that considered pre-1943 players. A 12-member committee of Hall of Famers, media and historians will vote.
Players must appear on 75 percent of the ballots to gain election. Results will be announced Dec. 8 at the winter meetings in Las Vegas, and anyone elected will be inducted July 26.
The next vote for pre-1943 players will take place in 2013.
The hall will announce 10 finalists for players whose careers began in 1943 or later.
Reynolds, a six-time All-Star and six-time World Series winner from Oklahoma City, was 182-107 for the Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees from 1942-53.
Reynolds played at Oklahoma A&M, and the baseball stadium at Oklahoma State was named after him in 1981. He died in 1994 at 79 in Oklahoma City.
Gordon, the 1942 American League Most Valuable Player, was a nine-time All-Star who played for the Yankees and Cleveland from 1938-43 and 1946-50.
Stephens was an eight-time All-Star who led the AL in RBIs three times while playing for the St. Louis Browns, Boston, Chicago White Sox and Baltimore from 1941-55.
A revamped committee met in December and considered managers and executives. It voted in former commissioner Bowie Kuhn, former Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley, managers Dick Williams and Billy Southworth and ex-Pittsburgh owner Barney Dreyfuss while bypassing former players’ association head Marvin Miller.
The format of the Veterans Committee had been changed twice since 2001, when charges of cronyism accompanied the election of Bill Mazeroski.
The 15-member panel was expanded to include every living member of the Hall, but that group failed to elect anyone in three tries. The Hall then changed to the current format of separate panels.
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