Word: ballotings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Association rules, a player is not eligible to appear on the Hall of Fame ballot until five years after he has completed his baseball career. The only player ever to reach the Hall of Fame before the five-year waiting period was Lou Gehrig, the late first baseman of the New York Yankees, who died of a terminal disease...
...Paul W. Holland, lecturer on statistics, utilizes a 700 page book of five digit random numbers. A page and column are selected from the book, and the sequence of numbers is matched to an alphabetical list of the candidates. The candidates are listed on the ballot from lowest number to highest...
Each year five Overseers are elected for six year terms. The candidates in order on the ballot are: Elizabeth B. Dubois '62, Humphrey Doerman '52, Manley Fleischmann '29, Gerard Pier '37, Dr. John H. Knowles '47, Walter H. Page '37, Eli Goldston '42, Marilyn W. Monsour '45, Joseph W. Bartlett II '52, and Kenneth Keniston...
...directors will be elected. The candidates in order on the ballot are: John D. Bagdade '58, Paul C. Sheeline '42, David L. G. Johnston '63, Martin S. Sosland, Boisfevillet Jones Jr. '68, Dorothy P. Rich, Michael W. Christian '60, Harrie Rogers Chamberlin '42, May B. Cheever, Barry L. Williams '66, Charles E. Mason Jr. '30, and Colby Hewitt...
...Committee of Concerned Alumni, which has often supported its own candidates, did not petition to have its own slate on the ballot. Peter D. Shultz '52, acting general secretary of the Alumni, said yesterday that CCA "could not find too much to object to in the slate offered...