Why Barry Bonds and Roger Clemens get another shot at the Hall of Fame this weekend
Come Sunday evening, by decree of 16 committee members rather than hundreds of voters, Barry Bonds could end up in a place so elusive to reach: The Hall's 16-member Era Committee, comprised of former players, baseball executives, media members and historians, will meet Sunday in San Diego and consider thewho failed to earn election in up to 10 years on the Baseball Writers' Assn. of America ballot.
The other six players: Sluggers Albert Belle, Fred McGriff, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy and Rafael Palmeiro, and pitcher Curt Schilling. Just like the writers' ballot: Candidates need 75% of the vote. In this case, though, that means 12 yes votes from just 16 votes committee members compared to the hundreds of votes needed from baseball writers. In 2021, a player needed to be named on 296 of 394 ballots cast by 10-year members of the BBWAA. reached that plateau, with 307 votes.
Consider the seven Hall of Famers on the voting committee: Four were voted in by the writers, while three made it via committee. Can you remember which way they all got in?OK, so it's not that simple. But Bonds' and Clemens' strong ties to performance-enhancing drug use - via federal drug trials stemming from the BALCO trial and Clemens' disputed congressional testimony - had a serious drag on their otherwise overwhelming Hall of Fame cases.
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