chief bender, who was technically eligible due to a single inning pitched in 1925, received only 2 votes – a continued drop from his past prominence on the ballot; as with the previous election, it seems either that most voters were unaware of his eligibility or that they viewed it as irrelevant to the spirit of the rules. there was also some confusion as to the cutoff year for eligibility; some writers believed it to be 1927 or 1928 rather than 1924. dizzy dean, whose eligibility in 1948 had been questioned due to a single appearance in a 1947 game, returned to the same level he had attained in the 1947 election. unlike the 1948 election, no players active in the previous year received votes.