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VOTING RESULTS

- Lacques is a voting member of the Baseball Writers’ Associatio­n of America.

The full voting results, out of 425 total votes:

Mariano Rivera – 425 (100%) Roy Halladay – 363 (85.4%) Edgar Martinez – 363 (85.4%) Mike Mussina – 326 (76.7%) Curt Schilling – 259 (60.9%) Roger Clemens – 253 (59.5%) Barry Bonds – 251 (59.1%) Larry Walker – 232 (54.6%) Omar Vizquel – 182 (42.8%) Fred McGriff – 169 (39.8%) Manny Ramirez – 97 (22.8%) Jeff Kent – 77 (18.1%)

Scott Rolen – 73 (17.2%)

Billy Wagner – 71 (16.7%)

Todd Helton – 70 (16.5%)

Gary Sheffield – 58 (13.6%) Andy Pettitte – 42 (9.9%) Sammy Sosa – 36 (8.5%) Andruw Jones – 32 (7.5%) Michael Young – 9 (2.1%) Lance Berkman – 5 (1.2%) Miguel Tejada –5 (1.2%)

Roy Oswalt – 4 (0.9%)

Placido Polanco – 2 (0.5%) Received zero votes: Rick Ankiel; Jason Bay; Freddy Garcia; Jon Garland; Travis Hafner; Ted Lilly; Derek Lowe; Darren Oliver; Juan Pierre; Vernon Wells; Kevin Youkilis

That will mark a decade of the Hall reckoning with the Steroid Era, and it will be fascinatin­g to see how the final-year dramas of Bonds and Clemens play out alongside the debut of the beloved Ortiz.

Fortunatel­y, it will not be ballot backlogs keeping them out; if 26 percent of the electorate determine their well-documented connection­s to performanc­eenhancing drugs are too strong to ignore, well, that’s a legitimate stance, albeit one many disagree with.

That’s a problem for a few Januaries from now. For now, fans have a star-studded and emotional July afternoon in Cooperstow­n to relish.

And the best Hall of Fame in sports can take some solace in the fact that many wrongs can, eventually, be made right.

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