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The 2000 elections to select inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame followed the same system in use since 1995. The BBWAA election continued to apply a 75% rule to all eligible players, while the Veterans Committee met in closed door sessions to select from players ineligible for the BBWAA election, as well as managers and executives.

The induction ceremonies were held on July 23 in Cooperstown, with George Grande as emcee.

The BBWAA election

The BBWAA was authorized to elect players active in 1980 or later, but not after 1994; the ballot included candidates from the 1999 ballot who received at least 5% of the vote but were not elected, along with selected players, chosen by a screening committee, whose last appearance was in 1994. All 10-year members of the BBWAA were eligible to vote.

Voters were instructed to cast votes for up to 10 candidates; any candidate receiving votes on at least 75% of the ballots would be honored with induction to the Hall. Results of the 2000 election by the BBWAA were announced on January 11, 2000. The ballot consisted of 30 players; 499 ballots were cast, with 375 votes required for election. A total of 2813 individual votes were cast, an average of 5.64 per ballot. Those candidates receiving less than 5% of the vote (25 votes) will not appear on future BBWAA ballots, but may eventually be considered by the Veterans Committee.

Candidates who were eligible for the first time are indicated here with a †. The two candidates who received at least 75% of the vote and were elected are indicated in bold italics; candidates who have since been selected in subsequent elections are indicated in italics. The 13 candidates who received less than 5% of the vote, thus becoming ineligible for future BBWAA consideration, are indicated with a *.

Carlton Fisk
397
Tony Perez 385
Jim Rice
257
Gary Carter
248
Bruce Sutter
192
†Rich Gossage
166
Steve Garvey
160
Tommy John
135
Jim Kaat
125
Dale Murphy
116
†Jack Morris
111
Dave Parker 104
Bert Blyleven
87
Luis Tiant
86
Dave Concepcion 67
Keith Hernandez
52
Ron Guidry
44
†Jeff Reardon
* 24
Bob Boone
* 21
†Willie Wilson* 10
†Rick Sutcliffe
* 9
†Kent Hrbek
* 5
†Charlie Hough
* 4
†Dave Henderson
* 2
†Steve Sax
* 2
†Bill Gullickson
* 1
†Bruce Hurst
* 1
†Lonnie Smith
* 1
†Bob Welch* 1
†Hubie Brooks
* 0

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