Veterans Committee Adds None to the Hall of Fame

For the first time since 1988, the Veterans Committee did not elect anyone into Baseball’s Hall of Fame when it held its annual meeting Tuesday in Tampa, Fla.

The veterans committee votes on players who have been out of baseball for 23 or more years, and umpires, managers, executives and players from the Negro Leagues. Hall of Fame president Ed Stack said the most-discussed players were Nellie Fox, Joe Gordon, Gil Hodges, Carl Mays, Phil Rizzuto, Cecil Travis and Vic Willis. Stack said umpire Nestor Chylak was talked about, along with Leon Day from the Negro Leagues, manager Leo Durocher and William Holbert, the founder of the National League.