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Article: Gossage misses Hall by 21 votes.(Sports)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- January 10, 2007
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Byline: Jack Etkin, Rocky Mountain News
Goose Gossage inched closer to the Hall of Fame, gaining votes but falling just short of election Tuesday in his eighth year on the ballot.
He finished 21 votes shy of the 409 necessary for baseball immortality, named on 71.2 percent of the record 545 ballots cast by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America who have been in the organization for 10 consecutive years.
A player must receive 75 percent to be elected.
"I'd be lying if I said I wasn't disappointed," Gossage said from Colorado Springs, where he was born and still lives. "I was disappointed. But I was not as disappointed as I have been in the ...