ORLANDO, Fla.  When Pat Gillick left the Yankees’ front office in 1976 to build the expansion Toronto Blue Jays, George Steinbrenner was upset. He did not like a new American League East rival poaching his scouting director.

“He wasn’t pretty happy when I left,” Gillick said in a telephone interview last week. “He wanted me to stay. But I thought about the opportunity to go up with an expansion club, and you don’t get that too often.”

Gillick and Steinbrenner did just fine apart. Both went on to careers filled with championships, and both appeared on the veterans committee’s Hall of Fame ballot for the first time this year. But only Gillick was elected in voting results announced Monday.

Gillick, the former general manager of the Blue Jays, the Baltimore Orioles, the Seattle Mariners and the Philadelphia Phillies, was named on 13 of 16 ballots, with 12 needed for election. Steinbrenner, who owned the Yankees from 1973 until his death on July 13, was named on fewer than eight ballots. The Hall of Fame would not specify exactly how many votes Steinbrenner received.