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Power-hitting second baseman played on Tribe's 1948 championship team
Published on Tuesday, Dec 09, 2008
From Beacon Journal wire services
Former Cleveland Indian and New York Yankee Joe Gordon will join former teammates Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig and Bob Feller in the hall of fame.
For the likes of Joe Torre, Jim Kaat and Ron Santo, it was another shutout.
Gordon was elected Monday by a 12-member Veterans Committee of hall members and historians who studied pre-1943 players. A nine-time All-Star, the late second baseman won five World Series titles with the New York Yankees and Cleveland.
But another panel made up of the living 64 hall of famers didn't come close to picking anyone who started after World War II. Santo fell short, followed by Kaat, Tony Oliva, Gil Hodges and Torre.
This marked the fourth straight time that nobody was chosen from the newer group.
''It's not our job to vote someone in,'' hall of fame manager Dick Williams said by phone from Las Vegas, where the results were announced at baseball's winter meetings. ''It's our job to consider the candidates.
''I thought Kaat would get in. I voted for him. And I think Joe Torre will, too, when he's done managing. I missed quite a few times before I got in. I know what that's like.''
It took 75 percent — 48 votes — for election and Santo did the best with 39. The former Cubs slugger led Kaat (38), Oliva (33), Hodges (28) and Torre (19).
Rickey Henderson is the leading candidate in the upcoming hall election by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Results will be announced Jan. 12.
Induction ceremonies in Cooperstown, N.Y., are July 26.
Gordon began his career in 1938 with a championship Yankees team that included future hall members DiMaggio, Gehrig, Bill Dickey, Red Ruffing and Lefty Gomez.
''Flash'' Gordon played in 1948 with the last Indians team to win the World Series. He finished in 1950 alongside future hall of famers Larry Doby, Lou Boudreau, Bob Lemon, Early Wynn and Feller.
Gordon was the 1942 AL MVP, beating Triple Crown winner Ted Williams, and hit .268 overall with 253 home runs and 975 RBI. He died in 1978.
Tigers acquire catcher
Detroit General Manager Dave Dombrowski wasted little time on the opening day of baseball's winter meetings to take care of one of the Tigers' biggest offseason needs.
The Tigers acquired catcher Gerald Laird from the Rangers in a trade that sends right-handed pitching prospects Guillermo Moscoso and Carlos Melo to Texas, shoring up a position Dombrowski considered a key this winter to building his club for 2009.
Laird, who batted .276 with six home runs and 41 RBI in 95 games for the Rangers in 2008, is expected to become the Tigers' starter in spring training.
Maddux retires
After 355 wins and 23 major league seasons, Greg Maddux held a 30-minute news conference to announce his retirement on the opening day of the winter meetings in Las Vegas.
''I really just came out here today to say thank you,'' he said in a ballroom at the swanky Bellagio hotel. ''I appreciate everything this game has given me. It's going to be hard to walk away, obviously, but it's time.''
Maddux leaves with four consecutive NL Cy Young Awards (1992-95) and a 3.16 ERA. He ranks eighth on the career wins list, with one more victory than Roger Clemens.
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