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Article: [ Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. knew this day was coming for years. Knew the outcome, too, even if they didn't want to admit it.... ]
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- Daily Breeze
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- January 10, 2007
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Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. knew this day was coming for years.
Knew the outcome, too, even if they didn't want to admit it.
Makes you wonder what Mark McGwire was thinking.
Once considered as much of a lock for the Hall of Fame as Ripken
and Gwynn, Big Mac is now officially a pariah. It's been clear for
months he wasn't getting into the Hall, with voters still suspicious
and downright angry over his role in the supersizing of the cherished
American pastime.
But McGwire couldn't even muster support from a quarter of the
voters, limping in Tuesday with a mere 128 votes out of the record
545 cast. Lee Smith and Jack Morris didn't make it, either, but they
at least cracked the 200-vote ...