http://www.baseballlibrary.com/chron...1979#January23Jan 23 Willie Mays receives 409 of 432 votes in the BBWAA election to earn enshrinement in the Hall of Fame.
This is amazing to me. What idiot wouldn't vote for Willie Mays to make the Hall of Fame? There must have been 23 racist sportswriters still in the game.
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