Deveney: 2013 Hall field could be most crowded — ever

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TSN: Deveney: 2013 Hall field could be most crowded — ever
Published 5/2/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
TSN: Deveney: 2013 Hall field could be most crowded — ever We can say for sure that Smoltz, Glavine, Maddux, Martinez, Schilling and Johnson will be in the Hall of Fame. But it’s a virtual certainty that all six will not get in en masse in 2013. The writers who vote for the Hall of Fame tend to be judicious with the first-ballot thing. There are only 38 players who have been voted into the Hall on their first try, and only once—in 1999, when George Brett, Nolan Ryan and Robin Yount made it—were there more than two first-timers elected. So, three, or possibly more, of those ...