Immortality for extra special BBWAA members....

VETERANS COMMITTEE FOR 2007 BASEBALL HALL OF FAME includes;

• The Historical Overview Committee--11 baseball writers appointed by the BBWAA's Board of Directors developed a ballot of 10 managers and umpires;

the committee members (referenced in this HOF press release 11/8/07) were:

• Dave Van Dyck (Chicago Tribune),

• Bob Elliott (Toronto Sun),

• Rick Hummel (St. Louis Post-Dispatch),

• Steve Hirdt (Elias Sports Bureau),

• Moss Klein (Newark Star-Ledger),

• Bill Madden (New York Daily News),

• Ken Nigro (formerly Baltimore Sun),

• Jack O'Connell (MLB.com),

• Nick Peters (The Sacramento Bee),

• Tracy Ringolsby (Rocky Mountain News) and

• Mark Whicker (The Orange County Register).

DECIDING THE FATE OF MANAGERS/UMPIRES FOR THE HALL OF FAME INCLUDES 3 MEDIA MEMBERS: (Referenced in this HOF press release, 11/08/07)

• Jack O'Connell,

• Tim Kurkjian,

• Tom Verducci

DECIDING THE FATE OF EXECUTIVES FOR THE 2007 HALL OF FAME INCLUDES 3 MORE MEDIA MEMBERS (referenced in this HOF press release 11/08/07):

• Paul Hagen,

• Rick Hummel,

• Hal McCoy

(The revamped electors group this year neatly kept Marvin Miller out, per news analysis).

• P.S. Bud Selig is on the Board of Directors of the Hall of Fame.

On 7/28/07 on baseballhalloffame.org is the following passage about voting and ballots which I can't translate exactly. Items from that website do not copy, so I'm transcribing here:

• "The Historical Overview Committee, which consists of 10 writers and historians

• appointed by the Secretary-Treasurer of the BBWAA,

will continue to formulate both ballots, with the living Hall-of-Famers taking over as the screening committee from a 60-member group of BBWAA members."...

• This references a 10 member Historical Overview Committee ALL APPOINTED BY THE SAME PERSON, JACK O'CONNELL (sec.-treas. of the BBWAA).

The article is also written by...Jack O'Connell, listed as a Hall of Fame reporter.

• From BaseballHallofFame.org 7/28/07, Veterans Committee Process Revamped.

(The HOF press release of 11/8/07 references a Historical Overview Committee of 11 members appointed by a Board. This article by O'Connell notes a Historical Overview Committee of only 10 members, all appointed by O'Connell).

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