From the Cape Cod League

Only two former Cape Cod Baseball League players can be found in the hallowed halls of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y., but on Jan. 8, 2014, that number could change dramatically.
 
     The 2014 ballot, mailed out Nov. 26 to the more than 600 voting members of the Baseball Writers Association of America, includes the names of six players with Cape League backgrounds, all hoping to join Carlton Fisk (Orleans, 1966) and Harold “Pie” Traynor (Falmouth, 1919) as baseball immortals.
 
     Last year, for the first time since 1996, not one of the 17 candidates received enough votes to gain election.
 
     Coming closest was former Houston Astro Craig Biggio (Yarmouth-Dennis, 1986), who received 388 votes, 39 shy of the 427 required for election. His total translated to 68.2 percent of the electorate, which consists of BBWAA members with 10 or more consecutive seasons of Major League Baseball coverage. Players must be named on 75 percent of the ballots cast in order to gain election.

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