Curt Schilling can’t decide whether to stay in the baseball Hall of Fame vote. The board of directors of the hall should not decide either. Schilling must remain on the ballot for one reason only: because it says so in the rules of the room.
The rules for the election of the American Baseball Writers’ Association, listed on the Hall’s website, include the following passage on how a six-member writing committee forms the ballot:
“The duty of the examination board shall be to prepare an alphabetical list of eligible candidates who (1) have received a vote of at least five per cent (5%) of the ballots cast in previous elections or (2) are eligible to vote. for the first time and are nominated by any two of the six members of the BBWAA Screening Committee. ”
Nothing in the rules says that the candidates or the Chamber itself can cancel these two ways, so the discussion …