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Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame
1937 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
New inductees
| 8
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via
BBWAA
| 3
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via Centennial Commission
| 5
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Total inductees
| 13
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Induction date
| June 12, 1939
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The
1937
process of selecting inductees to the
Baseball Hall of Fame
was markedly different from
the initial elections
the previous year. As only half of the initial goal of 10 inductees had been selected in 1936, members of the
Baseball Writers' Association of America
(BBWAA) were once again given authority to select any players active in the 20th century; but the unsuccessful 1936
Veterans Committee
election for 19th-century players led to a smaller Centennial Commission choosing a handful of inductees whose contributions were largely as non-players.
In the BBWAA election, voters were again instructed to cast votes for 10 candidates, but were now discouraged from casting votes for active players, although some
player-managers
whose playing days were largely over, such as
Rogers Hornsby
, received votes. Any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall upon its opening in the sport's supposed centennial year of 1939. Again, individuals who had been barred from baseball were not formally ineligible;
Hal Chase
received some votes, although
Shoeless Joe Jackson
did not. Balloting by the BBWAA resulted in the election of three players:
Nap Lajoie
,
Tris Speaker
, and
Cy Young
.
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BBWAA vote
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A total of 201 ballots were cast, with 1,949 individual votes for 113 specific candidates, an average of 9.70 per ballot; 151 votes were required for election. Selections were announced on January 19, 1937. The three candidates who received at least 75% of the vote and were elected are indicated in
bold italics
; candidates who have since been selected in subsequent elections are indicated in
italics
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Elected to the Hall. These individuals are also indicated in
bold italics
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Players who were elected in future elections. These individuals are also indicated in
plain italics
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Centennial Commission
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After the error-ridden 1936 Veterans election failed to select any 19th-century players, the Hall opted in 1937 to have a small committee select inductees "for outstanding service to base ball apart from playing the game." The Commission's members were: Commissioner
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
;
National League
president
Ford Frick
;
American League
president
Will Harridge
; Judge
William G. Bramham
, president of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues (the minor league overseeing body); former NL president
John Heydler
; and
George Trautman
, president of the minor league
American Association
and chairman of the National Association's executive committee. At the December 1937 major league winter meetings in Chicago, Frick announced that the Commission had elected five people. The selections were:
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Of the five selectees, only Mack was still living when the selections were made.
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