While Henderson enters the hall in his first year of eligibility, Rice waited 15-years before securing his place in Cooperstown on his last appearance on the Baseball Writers Association of America ballot.
He was the three-time chairman of the Boston chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America, which awarded him its Dave O'Hara Award for long and meritorious service and nominated him this year for the Hall of Fame's J.
Byline: The Register-Guard THE REGION Ex-Beaver Ellsbury named BoSox's top minor leaguer BOSTON - Former Oregon State outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury was selected as the Boston Red Sox's top minor leaguer for 2006 by the Boston Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
All the steroids-fueled controversy of the past few years will be channeled in the big redhead -- the first, and in many ways, the best test case for just where the Baseball Writers Association of America stands on the chemically accused mass of sluggers from this tainted era.
This oft-repeated scene-Carlton fanned almost 900 different major leaguers and struck out the side 124 times-is why the Baseball Writers Association of America voted him into the Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility, naming him on 436 of 455 ballots (95.
In its role as the Official Express Delivery and Logistics Provider of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, DHL will also play a key role in the distribution of the ballots for the selection of the 2006 Hall of Fame inductees, sending the ballots directly to the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA), the organization which has been responsible for the selection of the inductees since 1936.
