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Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2025 will be conducted according to the rules most recently amended in 2022. As in the past, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) will vote by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players, and the results will be announced on January 21.
The list of players appearing on the BBWAA ballot was released on November 21, 2022; the results were announced on January 24, 2023. There were 14 players carried over from the 2022 ballot, [3] [4] who garnered at least 5% of the vote and were still eligible for election, as well as 14 players whose last major league appearance was in 2017 and were chosen by a screening committee. [5]
The list of players appearing on the BBWAA ballot was released on November 20, 2023. There were 14 players carried over from the 2023 ballot, [3] [4] who garnered at least 5% of the vote and were still eligible for election, as well as 12 players whose last major league appearance was in 2018, played at least 10 seasons of Major League Baseball, and were chosen by a screening committee. [5]
The Baseball Hall of Fame Class of 2024 has been decided. All ballots from Baseball Writers Association of America voters, of which there are estimated to be 384, have been collected. (They had to ...
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (center), with Babe Ruth (left) and Bob Meusel Frankie Frisch as a player, c.1919 Bill Mazeroski was elected by the Veterans Committee in 2001.. The Veterans Committee can be traced back to 1939 when Commissioner of Baseball Kenesaw Mountain Landis formed the Old-Timers Committee to consider players from the 19th century for induction to the Hall of Fame.
A BBWAA member who has not been active for more than 10 years can regain voting status by covering MLB in the year preceding the election. [9] However, as of the 2020 balloting process, the BBWAA and Hall of Fame have apparently redefined "active membership" to remove the vote from anyone who did not cover MLB games for two years, instead of 10 ...
Within the Early Baseball Era Committee, the Hall of Fame announced a Special Early Baseball Overview Committee to form a ballot of 10 Negro League players for consideration; the special committee was led by former commissioner Bud Selig in a non-voting role. [11] The ballot was announced on November 5, and the voting was held on December 5.
The Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 2020. Elections to the National Baseball Hall of Fame for 2021 proceeded according to rules most recently amended in 2016. As in the past, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players. The results were announced on January 26 ...