Talk:Veterans Committee

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This is pretty dreadful - when was it established? Which members of the Hall of Fame were chosen by it? john k (talk) 22:39, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Veterans Committee

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Veterans Committee's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "Nonplayer ballots":

• From Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2008: "Veterans Committee Ballots Announced" (Press release). National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. 2007-11-08. Archived from the original on 15 November 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-13. {{cite press release}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
• From Marvin Miller: "Veterans Committee Ballots Announced" (Press release). National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. 2007-11-08. Retrieved 2007-11-13.

Reference named "vetvote":

• From Bill Dahlen: "Hank O'Day, Jacob Ruppert, Deacon White Elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame by Pre-Integration Committee". Baseball Hall of Fame. December 3, 2012. Retrieved 2012-12-03.
• From Baseball Hall of Fame balloting, 2013: "Hank O'Day, Jacob Ruppert, Deacon White Elected to National Baseball Hall of Fame by Pre-Integration Committee" (Press release). National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. December 3, 2012. Retrieved December 3, 2012.

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 03:41, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

Enos Slaughter, not Hoyt Wilhelm was voted into the Hall of Fame by the Veteran's Commission in 1985, Please make a note of it. The Name of Enos Slaughter has to be hyperlinked. Hoyt Wilhelm was voted into the Hall of Fame by the Baseball Writer's Association. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.183.48.206 (talk) 18:15, 2 December 2016 (UTC)

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Section 2 proposal

The main article page has carried a "very long" warning as a hatnote since September 2016. Most of that length comes from Section 2 of the main page, "Hall of Fame election timeline", which is actually a cut-and-paste of content that appears in individual pages about each year's Hall of Fame election. For example, "First Election (1936)" content also appears in 1936 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting. This pattern continues through the "2012 election", which appears in 2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting (as the vote was taken in late 2012, for induction during 2013). I propose deleting the current Section 2 content from the Veterans Committee main page, as that content already exists, and will be retained, on individual pages about each year's elections. Placed in Section 2 would then be a single table that chronologically lists inductees selected by the Veterans Committee, with a link to each year's main article. I believe this will make the Veterans Committee page significantly more readable and useful to readers. Comments welcome. Dmoore5556 (talk) 02:28, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

@Muboshgu and Yankees10: Dmoore5556 (talk) 01:07, 10 October 2019 (UTC)

Starting to remove duplicated content from this article; checking to confirm year-by-year content is present on applicable pages. Dmoore5556 (talk) 23:14, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

1965 rules change?

I seem to recall at the time the BBWAA made a rules change in 1965 exempting anyone 65 years of age or older from the requirement that one had to be out of baseball for five years before becoming eligible for the Hall of Fame, and that this was done specifically so the Veterans' Committee could vote for Casey Stengel (then age 75), who had just retired as manager of the Mets after breaking his hip. Stengel was elected that very year. ~2026-41396-13 (talk) 01:24, 24 July 2026 (UTC)

Hi, your recollection is pretty accurate. Please see this newspaper clipping from February 1966: https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sentinel-hall-of-fame-makes-changes/202287407/ In part: "...the waiting period is reduced to six months for anyone who has reached the age of 65." Dmoore5556 (talk) 01:36, 24 July 2026 (UTC)