UPDATE: Who Was Selected to the Baseball Hall of Fame? No One.
For the first time since 1996, the Baseball Writers Association of America failed to vote in a player to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
UPDATED: 2:15 p.m.- CNN reports there will be no new elected entries in the National Baseball Hall of Fame for 2013. The news agency sayd the hall's president made that announcement Wednesday. According to the BWAA's website, a winning candidate did not emerge from the Hall of Fame balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America and verified by Ernst & Young. There were 569 ballots cast, the third highest total in the history of the voting, but none of the 37 candidates in the 2013 vote gained mention on the required 75 percent for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It is only the eighth time that the Baseball Writers' Association of America has not elected an eligible player, according to a CNN breaking …
