Article: BASEBALL HALL OF FAME / JOURNAL SENTINEL VOTES

If the ballots cast by voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America from the Journal Sentinel are any indication, today could be a memorable day for Rich "Goose" Gossage.

Four of the five voting members from the Journal Sentinel included Gossage on the ballots they cast for the Baseball Hall of Fame. The results of the 2008 election will be announced today, with 75% of the votes cast required for entrance to Cooperstown.

Gossage, an intimidating late-inning reliever who compiled 310 saves during his 22-year career, came close to election last year with 71.2% of the votes cast, leaving him 21 votes shy on his eighth try. Tim Raines leads an otherwise modest group of 11 ...

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