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From: abgamble@water.UUCP (abgamble)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Billy Williams/Hall of Fame
Message-ID: <163@water.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 09:07:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 14 09:07:52 1986
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> 
> Wasn't Willie Mays on the Hall of Fame ballot this year?  If so why didn't he
> get voted in?  Was it something to do with kicking him out of baseball for 
> involvment in Atlantic City casinos?  Or what?  If Willie was on the ballot
> and not voted in then the Hall of Fame is a @#$%&*!
> 
> 						Joseph M. Dakes
> 						AT&T Bell Laboratories
> 						Reading, PA
> 						mhuxl!jmd

I'm sure that by now you are aware that Willie Mays has been in the Hall
of Fame for years now (since about 1979 I believe). I don't know where
you got the idea that he was on the ballot this year.
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                          - Bruce Gamble 
                            ihnp4!watmath!water!abgamble