They were asked torespond in the context of their most important product orproduct line, and the most recently ended planning period(see Table 1 for a brief description). Forty tape-recordedinterviews lasting between 60 and 90 minutes yieldedmore than 1,200 pages of transcripts.
Tim Kurkjian: Yes. Sammy Sosa is a Hall of Famer. There is no definitive proof about his alleged steroid involvement, so in the absence of hard evidence, his numbers are what we go by, and they are of Cooperstown quality. He has the fifth-most home runs in baseball history.
In â40 and â41, there was no election. He was finally voted in 1942, with 78.1 percent of the votes. It is also strange to note that if todayâs rules applied in 1945, we wouldnât have Joltinâ Joe DiMaggio in the Hall of Fame. He received only one vote, which represented only 0.4 percent of the ballots. Today, if a player receives less than 5 percent at any time during their 15 years of eligibility, they are discontinued from Hall of Fame voting. DiMaggio finally got inducted in 1955 on his fourth ballot. So, as you can see, it is no disgrace not to be voted into the HOF on your first year of eligibility.