Changes to Veterans Committee Procedures

PREVIOUS RULE

NEW RULE
Electorate: All living Hall of Fame members, Frick and Spink Award winners (total of 80-plus) cast ballots on Players ballot

Electorate: All living Hall of Fame members, Frick and Spink Award winners (total of 80-plus) cast ballots on Composite ballot

Electorate: All living Hall of Fame members (63) cast ballots on Players ballot

Electorate: Committee of 16 individuals (Hall of Famers, veteran writers, executives and historians) cast ballots on a managers/umpires ballot
 
Players ballot: Voted on every two years, in odd years (2003, 2005, 2007, etc). Anyone to receive votes on 75% of ballots cast was elected

Composite ballot: Voted on every four years (2003, 2007, etc.). Anyone to receive votes on 75% of ballots cast was elected
 

 Players ballot: Voted on every two years, in odd years, starting in 2009 (2009, 2011, 2013, etc). Anyone to receive votes on 75% of ballots cast will be elected

Managers/umpires ballot: Voted on every two years in even years, starting in 2008 (2008, 2010, 2012, etc.). Anyone to received votes on 75% of ballots cast will be elected

Eligible candidates: All players with 10 or more years experience. Any candidate on Major League Baseball’s ineligible list was not eligible for consideration Eligible candidates: All players with 10 or more years experience, whose careers began in 1943 or later. Any candidate on Major League Baseball’s ineligible list is not eligible for consideration
Pre-World War II Players: Part of Player ballot

 		 Pre-World War II Players: Will be reviewed by a Board-appointed committee of 12 individuals (Hall of Famers, veteran writers, and historians) every five years beginning in 2009
BBWAA-appointed Historical Overview Committee narrowed list of players to 200

BBWAA-appointed Historical Overview Committee narrowed list of managers, umpires and executives to 60
 

 BBWAA-appointed Historical Overview Committee narrows list of players to 20; Simultaneously, a screening committee of six Hall of Famers choose five players; list of players to contain 20-25 names, depending on duplicate results

BBWAA-appointed Historical Overview Committee narrows list of managers and umpires to 10

A screening committee of 60 BBWAA members narrowed list of players from 200 to 25; Simultaneously, a screening committee of six Hall of Famers chose five players; final ballot contained 25-30 names, depending on duplicate results

A screening committee of 60 BBWAA members narrowed list of managers, umpires and executives to 15

The living Hall of Fame members, acting as its own screening committee, narrows list of 25-30, to a final ballot of 10, by paper ballot.

No screening committee for managers and umpires.