Bert Blyleven, Roberto Alomar Voted Baseball's In Hall of Fame 2011

The body fickle voters that dominate the entrance to the Hall of Fame baseball on Wednesday elected a pitcher who had previously turned out on 13 consecutive ballots, overwhelmingly approved a second base after what can only be interpreted as a sentence of one year for spitting at a referee and sent his strongest signal so far that anyone linked to performance enhancing drugs is unlikely to be enshrined in Cooperstown in the short term.
Winners: The pitcher Bert Blyleven, elected at its 14 th year on the ballot - shy, the limit of 15 years before candidates are bounced from the ballot - and former Orioles second baseman Roberto Alomar of Baltimore, he did in his second attempt. They will be inducted at a ceremony in Cooperstown, NY, July 24.
The big losers: The first baseman Rafael Palmeiro, who is Hall worthy numbers, but whose test nonsteroidal in 2005 resulted in a surprisingly low total votes in their first year of eligibility to vote, and prodigious slugger Mark McGwire, whose admission use of steroids 11 months ago caused his vote totals down, not up, in its fifth year on the ballot.
Alomar elections and stressed both different idiosyncrasies Blyleven - critics might say crazy - Hall of Fame ballot, carried out by members of 10 years of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
For Blyleven, who had been on the ballot since 1998, when he was named on only 17.5 percent of submitted ballots - closer to 5 percent threshold below which is banished to a nominee ballot provided that the 75 percent needed for consecration. But after a grueling wait, Blyleven finally made it into Cooperstown this year with 463 of a possible 581 votes (79.7 percent).