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Open Hall's doors for these eight names

By Jayson Stark
ESPN.com

Friday, December 28, 2007

It's been nearly 5,000 days since Goose Gossage threw his last pitch in the big leagues. It's been nearly 7,000 days since Jim Rice's last hit. So it's one of the great puzzles of electoral times that here they are, all these years later, wondering if this is the election that finally gets them into the Hall of Fame. What, exactly, changed, anyway? It sure wasn't their careers. Only their vote totals, and the perspectives of the people casting those votes, have shifted. But whatever it was t ...

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