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Fred McGriff Unanimously Elected to BBHoF

Five-Time All-Star Will Be Inducted in Cooperstown July 23
FRED McGRIFF (Photo provided)

SAN DIEGO - Five-time All-Star and 1995 World Champion Fred McGriff earned election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday, December 4 via the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee process.

McGriff was the only candidate elected from the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee Players Ballot, which was considered by a 16-member committee that held meetings in San Diego. The eight-person ballot was comprised of candidates whose primary contribution to the game came from 1980 to the present.

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