2013 Baseball Hall of Fame balloting
Candidate Category Votes Percent
Hank O'Day Umpire 15 93.8
Jacob Ruppert Executive 15 93.8
Deacon White Player 14 87.5
Bill Dahlen Player 10 62.5
Samuel Breadon Executive 3 or less < 25%
Wes Ferrell Player 3 or less < 25%
Marty Marion Player 3 or less < 25%
Tony Mullane Player 3 or less < 25%
Al Reach Executive 3 or less < 25%
Bucky Walters Player 3 or less < 25%
Pre-integration Committee
In keeping with the new voting procedure by eras , the BBWAA-appointed Historical Overview Committee , made up of 11 BBWAA members , identified ten Pre-Integration candidates who were judged to have made their greatest contributions prior to 1947 . Along with the era , these rules defined the consideration set : [ 2 ] Players who played in at least 10 major league seasons , who are not on Major League Baseball 's ineligible list ( e.g. , Shoeless Joe Jackson ) , and have been retired for 21 or more seasons . Managers and umpires with 10 or more years in baseball and retired for at least five years . Candidates who are 65 years or older are eligible six years following retirement . Executives retired for at least five years . Active executives 65 years or older are eligible for consideration . However , due to the passage of time , the only listed criteria that materially restricted the field from which the candidates were selected were years of service and presence on baseball 's ineligible list . The eleven BBWAA-appointed Historical Overview Committee members were Dave Van Dyck ( Chicago Tribune ) ; Bob Elliott ( Toronto Sun ) ; Rick Hummel ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch ) ; Steve Hirdt ( Elias Sports Bureau ) ; Bill Madden ( New York Daily News ) ; Ken Nigro ( formerly Baltimore Sun ) ; Jack O'Connell ( BBWAA secretary/treasurer ) ; Tracy Ringolsby ( Root Sports Rocky Mountain/MLB.com ) ; Glenn Schwarz ( formerly San Francisco Chronicle ) ; Claire Smith ( ESPN ) ; and Mark Whicker ( Orange County Register ) . [ 19 ] The Pre-Integration ballot for election by the Pre-integration Committee was released on November 1 , 2012 , [ 19 ] and the Hall of Fame announced the results on December 3 . [ 6 ]
Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 2013 took place according to rules most recently revised in July 2010. As in the past, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from a ballot of recently retired players, with results announced on January 9, 2013. The Pre-Integration Committee, the last of three new voting committees established during the July 2010 rules change to replace the more broadly defined Veterans Committee, convened early in December 2012 to select from a ballot of players and non-playing personnel who made their greatest contributions to the sport prior to 1947, called the Pre-Integration Era by the Hall of Fame. For the first time since 1996, and just the third time since 1960, the BBWAA election resulted in no selections. As the ballot featured numerous strong candidates, the result was widely viewed as a reflection of the deep controversy over players who were primarily active during a period when the sport was riddled with rumored use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), and candidates appeared to have suffered in the voting regardless of whether they had been closely tied to any such rumors. The controversy's first major impact on the Hall of Fame ballot was seen in 2007, and the arrival in future years of additional candidates with either alleged or actual links to PED use suggested that the issue would be significant in Hall voting for at least several more years. For the first time since 1965, there were no living inductees. The induction class of 2013 consisted of the three deceased individuals elected by the new Pre-Integration Committee: player Deacon White, umpire Hank O'Day, and executive Jacob Ruppert, all of whom died in the 1930s. As was the case following the 1965 election-which also resulted only in the induction of a member deceased for over 60 years, and led to the resumption of annual BBWAA elections-the voting results led to calls for revision of the voting rules. The induction ceremonies were held on July 28, 2013, at the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. On July 27, the Hall of Fame presented two annual awards for media excellence - its own Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasters and the BBWAA's J. G. Taylor Spink Award for writers, and also honored sports medicine pioneer Dr. Frank Jobe and filmmaker Thomas Tull, producer of the 2013 film 42.