Morris and Trammell will be inducted at Cooperstown on July 29 along with any players elected by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. That announcement will come on Jan. 24.

Morris and Trammell made their debuts with the Tigers in 1977 and played together until 1990.

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Long-time Detroit Tigers teammates Jack Morris and Alan Trammell will go into the Hall of Fame together after being elected by the Modern Era committee on Sunday.

Former Red Sox ace Luis Tiant missed out again.

Morris received 14 votes and Trammell 13 from the 16-man committee. Former St. Louis Cardinals catcher Ted Simmons had 11 votes, one shy of the required 75 percent.


Former MLB Players Association chief Marvin Miller received seven votes. The other candidates — Tiant, Steve Garvey, Tommy John, Don Mattingly, Dale Murphy, and Dave Parker — received less than seven votes according to the Hall of Fame.

The voting was held at the Walt Disney Swan & Dolphin Resort one day before the start of the Winter Meetings.

Morris won 254 games for the Tigers, Twins, Blue Jays, and Indians and pitched for four World Series winners. The righthander was on the BBWAA ballot for 15 years, topping out at 67.7 percent in 2013.

Morris was the 1991 World Series MVP after throwing 10 shutout innings for Minnesota in Game 7 against the Atlanta Braves.

Trammell played his entire career with the Tigers, 20 years in all. He was a six-time All-Star and four-time Gold Glove winner at shortstop. Trammell was the 1984 World Series MVP and hit .285 for his career.

Trammell never received more than 40.9 percent of the BBWAA vote and that was in 2016, his final year of eligibility.

For the 77-year-old Tiant and his family, the Hall of Fame process has become a trial without end.


Tiant was on the BBWAA Hall of Fame ballot from 1988-2002. He received 30.9 percent of the vote in his first year of eligibility but never more than 18 percent after that.

Tiant was considered by the Veterans Committee in 2006, ’07, and ’09 and by what was called the Golden Era committee in 2012 and ’15.

In all, Tiant has been on some version of a Hall of Fame ballot 21 times without getting in.

Tiant was 229-172 with a 3.30 earned run average from 1964-82. Tiant spent eight seasons (1971-78) with the Red Sox, winning 122 games.

Tiant’s career statistics compare favorably to Hall of Famers Catfish Hunter, Jim Bunning, and Don Drysdale.

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