BBF VC Progressive HoF Contributors Election: 2017

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Sy Berger
Ken Burns
Harry Caray
Happy Chandler
Ford Frick
Jackie Robinson
Ted Turner

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This election is officially closed. We elected two contributors: Harry Caray and Bill McKechnie. Here are the final results.

2017 Contributors VC Final Results (8 Votes Cast, 6 Required for Election)
t1) Harry Caray - 6 Votes (75.00%) (Elected)
t1) Bill McKechnie - 6 Votes (75.00%) (Elected)
t3) Happy Chandler - 5 Votes (62.50%)
t3) Barney Dreyfuss - 5 Votes (62.50%)
t3) Billy Evans - 5 Votes (62.50%)
t3) Tony LaRussa - 5 Votes (62.50%)
t3) Alfred H. Spink - 5 Votes (62.50%)
t3) George Steinbrenner - 5 Votes (62.50%)
t3) William Wheaton - 5 Votes (62.50%)
t10) Buzzie Bavasi - 4 Votes (50.00%)
t10) Frank Jobe - 4 Votes (50.00%)
t10) Jacob Ruppert - 4 Votes (50.00%)
t10) Ted Turner - 4 Votes (50.00%)
t10) Sol White - 4 Votes (50.00%)
t15) Jack Brickhouse - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) Jack Buck - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) O.P. Caylor - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) Nestor Chylak - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) Ford Frick - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) Pat Gillick - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) Gus Greenlee - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) Clark Griffith - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) Bucky Harris - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) Ernie Harwell - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) Billy Martin - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) Bob Uecker - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t15) Louis Wadsworth - 3 Votes (37.50%)
t28) Emmett Ashford - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Sy Berger - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Ken Burns - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Candy Cummings - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) John B. Foster - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Cal Hubbard - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Lee MacPhail - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Effa Manley - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Tommy McCarthy - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Tim Murnane - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Jackie Robinson - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Bob Sheppard - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Red Smith - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Joe Torre - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t28) Chris Von der Ahe - 2 Votes (25.00%)
t43) Doug Allison - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Cap Anson - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Frank Chance - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Fred Clarke - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Bud Fowler - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Curt Flood - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Bruce Froemming - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Cito Gaston - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Curt Gowdy - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Howie Haak - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Gil Hodges - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Fred Hutchinson - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Davey Johnson - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Ring Lardner - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Andy Leonard - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Jim Mutrie - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Shigeo Nagashima - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) David Neft - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Frank Osborn - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Pete Palmer - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Lou Piniella - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Harry Clay Pulliam - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Wilbert Robinson - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Bob Watson - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Charles Weeghman - 1 Vote (12.50%)
t43) Philip Wrigley - 1 Vote (12.50%)
Cutoff - Received No Votes
t69) Felipe Alou
t69) Eliot Asinof
t69) Dusty Baker
t69) Don Baylor
t69) Joe Brinkman
t69) Octavius Catto
t69) Phil Garner
t69) Mike Hargrove
t69) Ralph Houk
t69) Tom Kelly
t69) Gene Mauch
t69) Leo Mazzone
t69) Denny McKnight
t69) John McSherry
t69) Danny Murtagh
t69) Jerry Reinsdorf
t69) Larry Ritter
t69) Red Schoendienst
t69) Bud Selig
t69) Paul Snyder
t69) Horace Stoneham
t69) Joe Sugden
t69) Lee Weyer
t69) Tom Yawkey
t69) Dick Young

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Has Jim Mutrie ever been on the ballot?

James J. Mutrie (June 13, 1851 – January 24, 1938) was an American baseball pioneer who was the co-founder and first manager of both the original New York Metropolitans and the New York Giants. His career winning percentage of .611 was a 19th-century record, and remains the second highest by any major league manager with at least 500 wins, trailing only Joe McCarthy's mark of .615.

Mutrie, nicknamed "Smilin' Jeems" and "Truthful Jim", was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, and grew up playing cricket, first playing baseball at age 16. He played in the minor leagues from 1877 to 1879. In 1880 he moved from New England to New York, where he obtained financial backing from August Belmont and John B. Day to start the independent New York Metropolitans. At the end of the 1882 season, Day and Mutrie accepted offers from both the American Association and the National League to enter a New York team; they met their double commitment by entering the Mets in the American Association, and acquiring most of the players from the Troy Trojans to form the New York Gothams for the National League.

Mutrie managed the Metropolitans in 1883 and 1884, leading them to the 1884 World Series the latter year. In 1885, he switched to managing the Gothams, and is credited with giving them their nickname, the Giants. With star players such as Buck Ewing, Tim Keefe and Roger Connor, the Giants won National League pennants and World Series titles under Mutrie in 1888 and 1889. Ewing, Keefe and many other players defected to the Players' League's New York Giants in 1890, and the National League Giants under Mutrie slumped to sixth and then third place. When the Giants were reorganized after the 1891 season under new ownership, Mutrie was not retained as manager.