David Ortiz Only Elected to the Major League Hall of Fame

Baseball 26/01/2022

Former Dominican baseball player David Big Papi Ortiz, legend of the Boston Red Sox, was the only player elected this Tuesday to the Major League Hall of Fame by the North American Baseball Writers Association (BBWAA), achieving it in its first year of eligibility.

Ortiz joins the six men who were voted in December by the Golden Days Committee and the Early Baseball Era Committee Jim Kaat and Cuban Tony Oliva, and the now deceased Bud Fowler, Gil Hodges, Orestes "Minnie" Miñoso and Buck O'Neil. All will be honored on July 24, 2022 during the exaltation ceremony in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Then the full results of the BBWAA vote. To be elected you have to have 75% of the vote.

David Ortiz: 307 votes, 77.9%

Barry Bonds: 260 votes, 66% (last year on the ballot)

Roger Clemens: 257 votes, 65.2% (last year on the ballot)

Scott Rolen: 249 votes, 63.2%

Curt Schilling: 231 votes, 58.6% (last year on the ballot)

Todd Helton: 205 votes, 52.0%

Billy Wagner: 201 votes, 51.0%

Andruw Jones: 163 votes, 41.1%

Gary Sheffield: 160 votes, 40.6%

Alex Rodriguez: 135 votes, 34.3%

Jeff Kent: 129 votes, 32.7%