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Roberto Alomar, Bert Blyleven elected to Baseball Hall of Fame 01.05.11 at 2:45 pm ET
By WEEI

Second baseman Roberto Alomar and pitcher Bert Blyleven were elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writers’ Association on Wednesday.

Alomar, a 12-time All-Star and 10-time Gold Glove winner, hit .300/.371/.443 over 17 major league seasons. Blyleven, meanwhile, picked up 287 wins and tossed 242 complete games over his 22-year career. His 3,701 strikeouts are the fifth-most of all time.

The 523 votes (a 90-percent plurality) that Alomar received were the third-most ever, while Blyleven received 463 votes (79.7 percent).

Alomar and Blyleven will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on July 24 at the Clark Sports Center in Cooperstown, N.Y. Executive Pat Gillick, writer Bill Conlin, and announcer Dave Van Horne will also be honored.

The voting went down as follows:

Roberto Alomar 523 (90.0%), Bert Blyleven 463 (79.7%), Barry Larkin 361 (62.1%), Jack Morris 311 (53.5%), Lee Smith 263 (45.3%), Jeff Bagwell 242 (41.7%), Tim Raines 218 (37.5%), Edgar Martinez 191 (32.9%), Alan Trammell 141 (24.3%), Larry Walker 118 (20.3%), Mark McGwire 115 (19.8%), Fred McGriff 104 (17.9%), Dave Parker 89 (15.3%), Don Mattingly 79 (13.6%), Dale Murphy 73 (12.6%), Rafael Palmeiro 64 (11.0%), Juan Gonzalez 30 (5.2%), Harold Baines 28 (4.8%), John Franco 27 (4.6%), Kevin Brown 12 (2.1%), Tino Martinez 6 (1.0%), Marquis Grissom 4 (0.7%), Al Leiter 4 (0.7%), John Olerud 4 (0.7%), B.J. Surhoff 2 (0.3%), Bret Boone 1 (0.2%), Benito Santiago 1 (0.2%), Carlos Baerga 0, Lenny Harris 0, Bobby Higginson 0, Charles Johnson 0, Raul Mondesi 0, Kirk Rueter 0.

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  • Robert

    Great news on Blyleven. He won a ring as a huge contributor to the 79 Pirates,and another with the 1987 Twins. Other wise, he played on average to louzy teams.Coming up in late 1970, he just missed the great Twins teams of the 60′s and 1970. By 1971,Killebrew and Oliva were pretty much done.He was a far better pitcher then his W-L record indicated.Go to Baseball-Reference.com and see the CG’s, shutouts, strike outs and innings piched. You don’t see those kind of numbers today. It’s about time!

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