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Steve Garvey may not be elected to the Senate. What about the Baseball Hall of Fame?
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Steve Garvey may not be elected to the Senate. What about the Baseball Hall of Fame?

MONTREAL - OCTOBER 19: Steve Garvey #6 and pitcher Bob Welch #35 of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate after winning the National League Championship Series against the Montreal Expos at the Olympic Stadium on October 19, 1981 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (Photo by Ronald C. Modra/Sports Imagery/Getty Images) ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if from CT, LA or MoD **

Steve Garvey celebrates the 1981 NLCS final on his knees with pitcher Bob Welch, left. (Ronald C. Modra / Sports Footage / Getty Images)

Steve Garvey is on the ballot Tuesday – and again next month.

On Election Day: Garvey, the longtime Dodgers star, against Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank) for a U.S. Senate seat representing California.

Garvey is expected to lose handily. He spent one of the final days of the campaign attending the Dodgers’ World Series championship celebration.

However, Garvey will be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in December.

The Hall announced Monday that Garvey and former Dodgers teammate Tommy John are two of eight candidates selected for this year’s Classic Baseball Era voting.

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Candidates must receive 75% of the votes from a committee appointed by the Hall. Any winners will be announced on December 8 and taped in Cooperstown next July. The Baseball Writers Assn. of America votes on more recently retired players; those results will be announced in January and any winners will also be introduced in July next year.

Joining Garvey and John in the committee vote: Dick Allen, Ken Boyer, Dave Parker, Luis Tiant and Negro League standouts John Donaldson and Vic Harris.

The Hall offers a second chance to players not chosen in the BBWAA voting, with committees evaluating players based on the era in which they made their greatest contributions.

The Classical Baseball Committee considers players who mainly played a leading role before 1980. The Contemporary Baseball Committee considers players who mainly played a leading role after 1980, such as Fernando Valenzuela. That committee will then make its selection in 2025.

The committee last met to consider this vote in 2023: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, Albert Belle, Don Mattingly, Fred McGriff, Dale Murphy, Rafael Palmeiro and Curt Schilling. The committee that year consisted largely of Hall of Famers and executives from Major League teams.

Bonds, the only seven-time Most Valuable Player in Major League history, and Clemens, the only seven-time Cy Young winner, have both been linked to the use of performance-enhancing drugs.

The only player chosen by that committee: McGriff.

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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.