Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice Make Hall
January 12, 2009 by Stephen Kersey
Filed under Awards, Feats and Accomplishments
On Monday, Rickey Henderson and Jim Rice were voted into baseball’s Hall of Fame after they received the required 75% of the vote. Henderson and Rice were two of an impressive list of potential Hall of Famers on the 2009 Hall of Fame ballot.
Henderson was able to get in on his first time on the ballot, while Rice got in on his final time on the ballot. They will be officially inducted into the Hall of Fame in July in Cooperstown, New York.
Here is the final voting numbers for the 2009 Hall of Fame:
Rickey Henderson - 511 votes - 94.8%
Jim Rice - 412 - 76.4%
Andre Dawson - 361 - 67.0%
Bert Blyleven - 338 - 62.7%
Lee Smith - 240 - 44.5%
Jack Morris - 237 - 44.0%
Tommy John -171 - 31.7
Tim Raines - 122 - 22.6%
Mark McGwire - 118 - 21.9%
Alan Trammell - 94 - 17.4%
Dave Parker - 81 - 15.0%
Don Mattingly - 64 - 11.9%
Dale Murphy - 62 - 11.5%
Harold Baines - 32 - 5.9%
Mark Grace - 22 - 4.1%
David Cone - 21 - 3.9%
Matt Williams - 7 - 1.3%
Mo Vaughn - 6 - 1.1%
Jay Bell - 2 - 0.4%
Jesse Orosco - 1 - 0.2%
