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Candidates using new means to gain votes

By Jerry Crasnick
ESPN.com

Friday, December 29, 2006

Tom Petty made his mark toting a Rickenbacker electric guitar rather than a Louisville Slugger, and he's immortalized in a Hall of Fame in downtown Cleveland, not upstate New York. But he might as well have been speaking for Cooperstown aspirants everywhere when he sang the lyrics: "The waiting is the hardest part." The wait became almost too much to bear for Bert Blyleven in 2001, when he urged Hall of Fame voters to ignore his candidacy and put him out of his misery. Blyleven's stance has si ...

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