Bruce Sutter elected to baseball's Hall of Fame

In a year filled with weak first-time candidates, Bruce Sutter was the only player elected to the Hall of Fame, becoming just the 4th relief pitcher (and the only one with 0 starts in the Majors) to be accorded this honor. Jim Rice was next (53 votes short) and Goose Gossage was just one vote behind Rice. Hopefully, they'll make it next year, but it will be difficult because of an extraordinarily strong cast of debut players on the ballot (the ballot will include Cal Ripken, Tony Gwynn, and Mark McGwire). Bert Blyleven got screwed by the voters again, damnit. I haven't yet seen the list of who got exactly how many votes, but the entire list should be posted reasonably soon.