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1986 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting

{{Short description|Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame}}

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{{Infobox Baseball Hall of Fame ballot

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|date=August 3, 1986

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File:Willie McCovey 1965.jpg]]

Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1986 followed the system in place since 1978.

The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from recent major league players and

elected Willie McCovey. The Veterans Committee met in closed sessions to consider older major league players as well as managers, umpires, executives, and figures from the Negro leagues. It selected two players, Bobby Doerr and Ernie Lombardi. A formal induction ceremony was held in Cooperstown, New York, on August 3, 1986, with Commissioner of Baseball Peter Ueberroth, and former Commissioners Bowie Kuhn and Happy Chandler, in attendance.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/36935394/mccovey_doerr_lombardi_enter/ |title=McCovey, Doerr, Lombardi enter baseball's Hall |first=Jerome |last=Holtzman |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |page=3-3 |date=August 4, 1986 |accessdate=October 9, 2019 |via=newspapers.com}}

BBWAA election

The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1966 or later, but not after 1980; the ballot included candidates from the 1985 ballot who received at least 5% of the vote but were not elected, along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 1980. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to vote.

Voters were instructed to cast votes for up to 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall. Results of the 1986 election by the BBWAA were announced on January 8. The ballot consisted of 41 players; a total of 425 ballots were cast, with 319 votes required for election. A total of 2,992 individual votes were cast, an average of 7.04 per ballot. (This would prove to be the last election to average 7 or more votes per ballot until 2014.) Those candidates receiving less than 5% of the vote will not appear on future BBWAA ballots, but may eventually be considered by the Veterans Committee.

Candidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated here with a dagger (†). The one candidate who received at least 75% of the vote and was elected is indicated in bold italics; candidates who have since been elected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics. The 17 candidates who received less than 5% of the vote, thus becoming ineligible for future BBWAA consideration, are indicated with an asterisk (*).

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Player

! Votes

! Percent

! Change

! Year

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| †Willie McCovey

| 346

| 81.4

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|align="center"|1st

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| Billy Williams

| 315

| 74.1

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 10.3%

|align="center"|5th

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| Catfish Hunter

| 289

| 68.0

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 14.3%

|align="center"|2nd

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| Jim Bunning

| 279

| 65.6

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 13.8%

|align="center"|10th

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| Roger Maris

| 177

| 41.6

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 9.2%

|align="center"|13th

-bgcolor="#ccccff"

| Tony Oliva

| 154

| 36.2

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 7.3%

|align="center"|5th

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| Orlando Cepeda

| 152

| 35.8

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 6.9%

|align="center"|7th

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| Harvey Kuenn

| 144

| 33.9

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 2.3%

|align="center"|10th

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| Maury Wills

| 124

| 29.2

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 5.7%

|align="center"|9th

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| Bill Mazeroski

| 100

| 23.5

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 1.5%

|align="center"|9th

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| Lew Burdette

| 96

| 22.6

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 1.8%

|align="center"|14th

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| Ken Boyer

| 95

| 22.4

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 5.2%

|align="center"|7th

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| †Minnie Miñoso

| 89

| 20.9

|align=center| -

|align="center"|2nd (see below)

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| Mickey Lolich

| 86

| 20.2

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 0.5%

|align="center"|2nd

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| Roy Face

| 74

| 17.4

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 1.7%

|align="center"|11th

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| Ron Santo

| 64

| 15.1

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 1.7%

|align="center"|3rd

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| Joe Torre

| 60

| 14.1

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 3.0%

|align="center"|4th

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| Elston Howard

| 51

| 12.0

|align="left"|{{decrease}}{{0}} 1.7%

|align="center"|13th

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| Curt Flood

| 45

| 10.6

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 3.5%

|align="center"|5th

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| Vada Pinson

| 43

| 10.1

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 5.3%

|align="center"|5th

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| Dick Allen

| 41

| 9.6

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 2.5%

|align="center"|4th

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| Thurman Munson

| 35

| 8.2

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 0.1%

|align="center"|6th

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| Don Larsen

| 33

| 7.8

|align="left"|{{decrease}}{{0}} 0.3%

|align="center"|13th

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| Wilbur Wood

| 23

| 5.4

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 1.3%

|align="center"|3rd

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| †Tim McCarver*

| 16

| 3.8

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

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| Dave McNally*

| 12

| 2.8

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 1.0%

|align="center"|4th

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| †John Hiller*

| 11

| 2.6

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

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| †Paul Blair*

| 8

| 1.9

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

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| †J. R. Richard*

| 7

| 1.6

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

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| Ken Holtzman*

| 5

| 1.2

|align=center| -

|align="center"|2nd

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| †Willie Horton*

| 4

| 0.9

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

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| Jim Lonborg*

| 3

| 0.7

|align="left"|{{decrease}}{{0}} 0.1%

|align="center"|2nd

bgcolor="#ffcccc"

| Andy Messersmith*

| 3

| 0.7

|align="left"|{{decrease}}{{0}} 0.1%

|align="center"|2nd

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| †Dave Cash*

| 2

| 0.5

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

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| †Manny Sanguillén*

| 2

| 0.5

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

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| †Jack Billingham*

| 1

| 0.2

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

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| †José Cardenal*

| 1

| 0.2

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

bgcolor="#ffcccc"

| †Bud Harrelson*

| 1

| 0.2

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

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| George Scott*

| 1

| 0.2

|align="left"|{{increase}}{{0}} 0.2%

|align="center"|2nd

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| †Vic Davalillo*

| 0

| 0.0

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

bgcolor="#ffcccc"

| †Darold Knowles*

| 0

| 0.0

|align=center| -

|align="center"|1st

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|+ Key to colors

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|Elected to the Hall. These individuals are also indicated in bold italics.

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|Players who were elected in future elections. These individuals are also indicated in plain italics.

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|Players not yet elected who returned on the 1987 ballot.

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|Eliminated from future BBWAA voting. These individuals remain eligible for future Veterans Committee consideration.

{{multiple image

| footer = Veterans Committee selections Bobby Doerr (left) and Ernie Lombardi

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| image1 = Bobby Doerr 1950 Bowman.jpg

| image2 = ErnieLombardiGoudeycard.jpg

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The newly eligible players included 15 All-Stars, two of whom were not included on the ballot, representing a total of 36 All-Star selections. Among the new candidates were 7-time All-Star Minnie Miñoso, who was re-eligible due to two at-bats in 1980, and 6-time All Star Willie McCovey. The field included one MVP (McCovey), and two Rookies of the Year (McCovey and Ted Sizemore).

Players eligible for the first time who were not included on the ballot were: Bill Bonham, Pedro Borbón, Bernie Carbo, Ralph Garr, Ken Henderson, Von Joshua, Fred Kendall, Lerrin LaGrow, Skip Lockwood, Elliott Maddox, Roger Metzger, Fred Norman, Marty Pattin, Dave Rader, Merv Rettenmund, Jim Rooker, Ted Sizemore and Bob Stinson.

J. G. Taylor Spink Award

Earl Lawson (1923–2003) received the J. G. Taylor Spink Award honoring a baseball writer.{{Cite web|url=https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/awards/spink/earl-lawson|title=1985 BBWAA Career Excellence Award Winner Earl Lawson}} The award was voted at the December 1985 meeting of the BBWAA, and included in the summer 1986 ceremonies.

References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20110810210505/http://baseballhall.org/hall-famers/bbwaa-voting/year?year=1986 1986 Election] at www.baseballhalloffame.org

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