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- Updated: May 20, 2016
CHICAGO — Tim Raines enters his 10th and final year on the Baseball Writers’ Association of America’s Hall of Fame ballot, coming off receiving 69.8 percent — 75 is needed for election — of the vote last year. So one of the game’s greatest leadoff hitters has some confidence going into his last opportunity.
“This is probably the first year out of the nine years that I’ve been on the ballot that I really, really feel like I have a chance,” Raines told reporters on Friday at U.S. Cellular Field prior to the White Sox series opener with the Royals. “I was 23 votes away last year.
“Up until that point I thought about it, when people ask me about it, the only thing I wanted to see was how many votes I got. But this year, realizing like I said that I was only 23 votes away, I think about it a lot more than I ever have in the past.”
Raines returned to Chicago for the 25th anniversary weekend celebration of U.S. Cellular Field. He served as a coach on Ozzie Guillen’s staff during the 2005 World Series championship season and for the 2006 season, and played five of his 23 seasons on the South Side (1991-95), including the ’93 postseason …
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