Ryno joins baseball immortals

It was announced this afternoon that Ryne Sandberg and Wade Boggs have been elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. Sandberg enters the Hall on one of the slimmest margins in history. He was only 1.2% over the needed 75%. Still it is great to see Ryno get the recognition he deserves for a brilliant career. Here's the vote:

2005 Hall of Fame Voting Results

The complete vote
(516 ballots, 387 to gain election, 26 to remain on ballot):
Player - Votes - %

Wade Boggs - 474 - 91.9%
Ryne Sandberg - 393 - 76.2%
Bruce Sutter - 344 - 66.7%
Jim Rice - 307 - 59.5%
"Goose" Gossage - 285 - 55.2%
Andre Dawson - 270 - 52.3%
Bert Blyleven - 211 - 40.9%
Lee Smith - 200 - 38.8%
Jack Morris - 172 - 33.3%
Tommy John - 123 - 23.8%
Steve Garvey - 106 - 20.5%
Alan Trammell - 87 - 16.9%
Dave Parker - 65 - 12.6%
Don Mattingly - 59 - 11.4%
Dave Concepcion - 55 - 10.7%
Dale Murphy - 54 - 10.5%
Willie McGee - 26 - 5.0%
Jim Abbott - 13 - 2.5%
Darryl Strawberry - 6 - 1.2%
Jack McDowell - 4 - 0.8%
Chili Davis - 3 - 0.6%
Tom Candiotti - 2 - 0.4%
Jeff Montgomery - 2 - 0.4%
Tony Phillips - 1 - 0.2%
Terry Steinbach - 1 - 0.2%
Mark Langston - 0 - 0.0%
Otis Nixon - 0 - 0.0%