(Story by Marco Stoovelaar)
 Jack Morris and Alan Trammell in Hall of Fame
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 LAKE BUENA VISTA, Florida (USA) -
Pitcher Jack Morris and short stop Alan Trammell have been elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The two were former teammates for fourteen seasons playing for the Detroit Tigers with whom they won the World Series in 1984.
The choice of a special 16-member panel was announced the election on Sunday-evening (December 10) at the start of the annual Winter Meetings, which are held this year in Lake Buena Vista, near Orlando (Florida).
Morris was named on 14 of the 16 ballots cast by the Modern Baseball Era Committee of the Hall of Fame.
Trammell was named on 13.
A candidate needed at least 75 percent to be elected.
There were ten candidates who all came from the period 1970-1987 and didn't get enough votes to get into the Hall of Fame through the regular election, which takes places each January by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
The next results of the BBWAA-election will be announced on January 24.
Morris and Trammell and those who are elected in January will officially be inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown on July 29.
Jack Morris pitched 18 seasons (1977-1994) in the Major League and won 254 games.
Morris pitched in 549 games and struckout 2,478 hitters.
He won the World Series with Detroit Tigers in 1984 against San Diego Padres.
In the same season, he threw a No-Hitter.
In 1991, he won the World Series again, this time with Minnesota Twins against Atlanta Braves.
Morris was the hero of that Series, winning a thrilling Game 7, pitching all ten innings in an 1-0 win.
He was named the Most Valuable Player of the 1991 Series.
Besides playing for the Tigers (1977-1990) and Twins (1991), Morris also played for Toronto Blue Jays (1992-1993) and Cleveland Indians (1994).
He played in five All Star Games and also won the World Series in his two seasons with Toronto.
After his playing career, Morris was a pitching instructor during Spring Training of the Tigers.
Later, he became a Radio and TV-analyst for the Twins, Blue Jays and Tigers.
Alan Trammell played 20 years (1977-1996) in the Majors, all with Detroit Tigers.
In his 20 seasons, Trammell played in 2,293 games and collected 2,365 basehits, including 185 homeruns.
Trammell was the Most Valuable Player of the 1984 World Series.
He played in six All Star Games and won four Gold Gloves.
After his playing career, Trammell was a coach for several years.
He was the Hitting Coach of the Tigers (1999) and 1B Coach for San Diego Padres (2000-2002).
In 2003-2005, Trammell was Manager of the Tigers.
Hereafter, in 2011, he became the Bench Coach of Arizona Diamondbacks, which then was managed by his former teammate Kirk Gibson.
Three days before the end of a disappointing 2014 season, both Gibson and Trammell were fired by the D-backs.
Trammell stayed on to be the Manager of the team for the final three games of the season.
In November of 2014, Trammell returned to the Tigers to become a Special Assistant to the General Manager.
The Modern Baseball Era Committee is one of some new committees coming from the original Veterans Committee, which was reformed in 2001.
Another restructuring followed in July 2016, resulting in the current four committees of Early Baseball (1871-1949), Golden Days (1950-1969), Modern Baseball (1970-1987) and Today's Game (1988-present).
These committees look at players (but also coaches, umpires and executives) who have not been chosen in the regular election and give them a second chance to be considered.
Players need at least five percent to remain on a ballot to be eligible for election into the Hall of Fame, but couldn't stay on the list for more than 15 years.
This has been reduced to 10 years in 2015.
Both Morris and Trammell were on the list for 15 years.
Morris was last eligible in 2014 and received his highest percentage in 2013 (67.7 percent).
Trammell's last eligible year was 2016 and he then received his highest percentage (40.9).
The other eight candidates were Steve Garvey, Tommy John, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, Dave Parker, Ted Simmons, Luis Tiant and former MLB Players Association Chairman Marvin Miller.
Former catcher Simmons got eleven votes.
Amongst the 16-member Committee were former players George Brett, Rod Carew, Dennis Eckersley, Don Sutton, Dave Winfield and Robin Yount, former Manager Bobby Cox and executive John Schuerholz, who all are members of the Hall of Fame themselves.
They were joined by five Major League-executives and three historians.
(December 10)
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