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Jojo Doria - AHN Sports Contributor
Lake Buena Vista, FL, United States (AHN) - Longtime baseball executive Pat Gillick, who built World Series championship teams in Toronto and Philadelphia, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Monday by the Expansion Era Committee.
Gillick, 73, who has spent nearly 50 years in Major League Baseball, including 27 as a general manager, is the only person selected for the 2010 class by the veterans committee.
Gillick, who built the Blue Jay teams that captured back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and '93, and was the architect of the 2008 World Series champion Phillies, is the 32nd executive to be elected to the Hall.
He is only the fourth GM elected to the Hall.
He was the only candidate among 12 that received the required 12 votes or 75 percent nod from the 16-member committee that included Hall of Famers, executives and veteran baseball writers. Gillick garnered 13 votes.
Gillick began his big league front office career with the Houston Colt .45s-Astros from 1963-73, then was the Yankees scouting director from 1974-76 before taking over the expansion Blue Jays in 1977.
Gillick served as GM of the Phillies, Mariners, Orioles and Blue Jays. He is currently a senior adviser of the Phillies.
Meanwhile, former baseball players’ union executive director Marvin Miller fell one vote short of the 75 percent needed for induction.
The longtime executive director of the MLB Players Association, in his fifth time on the ballot, lambasted the process held on December 5, indicating in a statement:
"It is repetitively negative, easy to forecast and therefore boring. It is an amusing anomaly that the Hall of Fame has made me famous by keeping me out," as reported by MLB.com.
The committee, which was formed as part of a revision of the former Veterans Committee, considered a ballot of eight former players, three executives and one manager whose contributions to the game were most significant from 1973 through the present.
Former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Dave Concepcion also failed to get elected after receiving eight votes, while other candidates garnering fewer than eight votes included Vida Blue, Steve Garvey, Ron Guidry, Tommy John, Billy Martin, Al Oliver, Ted Simmons, Rusty Staub and George Steinbrenner.
Gillick will be inducted during the enshrinement ceremonies slated on July 24, along with any players chosen next month by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Lake Buena Vista, FL, United States (AHN) - Longtime baseball executive Pat Gillick, who built World Series championship teams in Toronto and Philadelphia, was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Monday by the Expansion Era Committee.
Gillick, 73, who has spent nearly 50 years in Major League Baseball, including 27 as a general manager, is the only person selected for the 2010 class by the veterans committee.
Gillick, who built the Blue Jay teams that captured back-to-back World Series titles in 1992 and '93, and was the architect of the 2008 World Series champion Phillies, is the 32nd executive to be elected to the Hall.
He is only the fourth GM elected to the Hall.
He was the only candidate among 12 that received the required 12 votes or 75 percent nod from the 16-member committee that included Hall of Famers, executives and veteran baseball writers. Gillick garnered 13 votes.
Gillick began his big league front office career with the Houston Colt .45s-Astros from 1963-73, then was the Yankees scouting director from 1974-76 before taking over the expansion Blue Jays in 1977.
Gillick served as GM of the Phillies, Mariners, Orioles and Blue Jays. He is currently a senior adviser of the Phillies.
Meanwhile, former baseball players’ union executive director Marvin Miller fell one vote short of the 75 percent needed for induction.
The longtime executive director of the MLB Players Association, in his fifth time on the ballot, lambasted the process held on December 5, indicating in a statement:
"It is repetitively negative, easy to forecast and therefore boring. It is an amusing anomaly that the Hall of Fame has made me famous by keeping me out," as reported by MLB.com.
The committee, which was formed as part of a revision of the former Veterans Committee, considered a ballot of eight former players, three executives and one manager whose contributions to the game were most significant from 1973 through the present.
Former Cincinnati Reds shortstop Dave Concepcion also failed to get elected after receiving eight votes, while other candidates garnering fewer than eight votes included Vida Blue, Steve Garvey, Ron Guidry, Tommy John, Billy Martin, Al Oliver, Ted Simmons, Rusty Staub and George Steinbrenner.
Gillick will be inducted during the enshrinement ceremonies slated on July 24, along with any players chosen next month by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
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