Rickey Henderson, Major League Baseball's all-time stolen base leader, and Jim Rice, breaking through in his final year of eligibility, were elected on Monday to the US National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The first left-fielders elected to the Hall of Fame in 20 years will join seniors committee candidate Joe Gordon in induction ceremonies July 26 at the sport shrine in Cooperstown, New York, bringing the Hall's player total to 202.
Voting was done by a North American sports media panel, with 75 percent of votes needed to turn a candidate into a Hall of Famer.
Henderson, considered among the top lead-off batters to play the game, received 94.8 percent, named on 511 of 539 ballots in his first year on the ballot.
His 2,295 runs scored and 81 leadoff home runs are also career records.
Rice, in his 15th and last year of eligibility, fell 16 votes shy of election last year but this time had 412 votes (76.4 percent), seven more than he needed to secure enshrinement among the legends of the American pastime.
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