4 elected to baseball Hall of Fame

[Da Coach]

There will be 4 new inductees in the 2015 class of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The following 4 received enough votes to be inducted-
Craig Biggio
Randy Johnson
John Smoltz
Pedro Martinez

There were a number of other possibly deserving candidates on this year's ballot, including greats like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire, and others, but many of them have been either associated with steroid use, or suspected to have been steroid users, and the baseball writers who vote mostly have strong feelings that those who may have achieved their career stats using steroids do not deserve to be elected. Thus the relatively small class of 4 inductees for 2015.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/awards/hof_2015.shtml

All of those who were strongly suspected steroid users were on under 40% of the ballots (Roger Clemens was the highest with 37.5%), although there are some who even suspect guys like Craig Biggio might have also dabbled. 75% are needed to be inducted into the HOF. Is is looking like some of those great stars of the 1990's and early 2000's will probably never get enough votes to go into the HOF.

[tornado]

what's both ironic and hypocritical - is that other players who are in the Hall of Fame...
have admitted to use of PED's (performance enhancing drugs) - guys like Hank Aaron, Mike Schmidt, Willie Stargell and a couple pitchers -
they have said in interviews or their autobiographies - and it has been well documented that they had at least at some time during their careers
used something thinking it would help their performance...
...and there's even other evidence that a large pct of those in pro sports have done likewise - even tho it is also difficult to prove even with eyewitnesses