News about Fred McGriff

Fred McGriff and Scott Rolen's determination paid off one more time on Sunday afternoon. McGriff, nicknamed "Crime Dog," and Rolen were inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame at the Clark Sports Center in this bucolic upstate New York town. 'You're on the phone with [Hall of Fame] and you're talking and they're trying to talk to you through it,'' McGriff said at a press conference following the ceremony.' You finally get out there and you're on stage, and it's game time, and then you're like, 'Oh, okay, I'm all right.'

On the eight-man ballot for the Hall of Fame's modern baseball era committee, which meets in San Diego on December 4th, steroids-contaminated actors Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Rafael Palmeiro are among the eight-man committee. Albert Belle, Don Mattingly, Fred McGriff, Dale Murphy, and Curt Schilling were among the candidates for the 16-member committee, which excludes candidates whose careers date back to 1980. A candidate must be elected 75% and anyone who refuses will be inducted on July 23, as well as others selected in the Baseball Writers' Association of America election, declared on Jan. 24. In January, bond, Clemens, and Schilling's tenth and final appearances on the BBWAA ballot fell short. Bonds received 260 of 394 votes (66 percent), Clemens 257 (65.2 percent), and Schilling 231 (58.6 percent).