Wednesday, January 1, 2087
MUSKIES ANDRE LEMOINE MAKES IPA HALL OF FAME
All-time he played in 2507 games, batted .299 with 381 home runs, 2421 base hits, 1394 RBIs and 1439 runs scored -- stats great enough to be acclaimed a baseball immortal.
Lemoine won the 2069 Ruthlandian Union Golden Bat Award in 2069. He finished in the top 3 on 2 other occasions.
Andre Lemoine was officially inducted into the Islandian Pro Alliance Hall of Fame today. This was his 2nd time on the ballot, where he was elected with 81.0% of the vote.
At his Hall of Fame induction, the superstar second baseman told the audience the secret of his success: "I was born to be a ballplayer... I also practiced a lot. Sunup to sundown in the summertime my brothers and I would be on the ballfield. We did it every minute we could. Boy, I loved to play baseball. Still do, and still would, if I could. I always got a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you went through. I looked forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen."
One of his managers summed up his career very well: "You saw him standing out there on the diamond and you knew you had a darn good chance to win the baseball game."
Lemoine retired from baseball in 2082, when he was 40. He wore a Belle Plaine Musketeers hat at his induction ceremony.
The ballots are counted and the results are in. One player was enshrined this year: Andre Lemoine will now see his plaque mounted beside the other greats from the game.
The full voting results are included here. Players require 75% of ballots cast to be elected to the Hall, may stay on the ballot for up to 10 years if they receive at least 5% of the votes. Players must be retired for 3 years before they are eligible for induction to the Hall of Fame.
2B Andre Lemoine 81.0 (2nd year) Inducted HOF
3B Cooter Eldridge 64.9 (10th year) Dropped
SS Yazzy Ricks 60.7 (6th year)
SP William Pike 57.7 (4th year)
RF Ernie Friedricks 56.0 (2nd year)
2B Nat Kenner 31.2 (2nd year)
RP Henry Youngman 31.2 (2nd year)
SP Mick Flanders 29.5 (2nd year)
SS Junior Evans 29.2 (5th year)
3B Misha Makowski 28.9 (2nd year)
LF Dolph Gordon 28.6 (2nd year)
SS Andy Zahn 25.0 (2nd year)
SS Ollie Daggs 22.3 (2nd year)
CF Eliott Carleton 21.7 (2nd year)
1B Bralen Josephson 18.2 (10th year) Dropped
1B Virgil Welsh 17.6 (2nd year)
2B Jimmy Czarnecki 17.0 (2nd year)
SP Milosz Mazur 12.5 (2nd year)
SP Nobuo Ojima 12.5 (2nd year)
SP Russell Krohn 12.2 (5th year)
SP Bubby Dancer 11.0 (2nd year)
SP Billy Lake 8.6 (3rd year)
RP Brownie Ashmore 8.6 (8th year)
SP Lando Vargas 8.0 (2nd year)
SP Jethro Firestone 4.8 (1st year) Dropped
SP Andre Zajac 4.5 (3rd year) Dropped
RP Jason Irons 4.2 (3rd year) Dropped
LF Jeff Setser 2.1 (1st year) Dropped
2B Oliver Mackay 0.9 (1st year) Dropped
SP Matthew Pless 0.6 (1st year) Dropped
2B Philip Bliss 0.3 (1st year) Dropped
SP Herb Adamson 0.3 (1st year) Dropped
RP Kent Ryan 0.0 (1st year) Dropped
CF Alec Lauricella 0.0 (1st year) Dropped
