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- Elections to the Baseball Hall of Fame for 1971 featured a new committee on the Negro leagues that met in February and selected Satchel Paige, who spent most of his career in Negro league baseball before joining the Cleveland Indians in 1948, when he was over 40 years old. Controversy arose both over the selection of a pitcher with only 28 major-league victories (Negro league baseball statistics were not considered major-league statistics until 2020) and about the original plan not to include Negro league players in the main Hall of Fame. In July, officials announced that Paige and future Negro league selections would be included in the main Hall of Fame. Paige was honored alongside other Hall of Fame inductees in August. Otherwise, the elections continued a system of annual elections in place since 1968. The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) voted by mail to select from recent major league players and elected no one. The Veterans Committee met in closed-door sessions to select from executives, managers, umpires, and earlier major league players. It elected seven, the most in its 1953 to 2001 history: Dave Bancroft, Jake Beckley, Chick Hafey, Harry Hooper, Joe Kelley, Rube Marquard, and George Weiss. A formal induction ceremony was held in Cooperstown, New York, on August 9, 1971, with Commissioner of Baseball Bowie Kuhn presiding. (en)
- 1971年美國國家棒球名人堂票選成立了新的委員會，該委員會首度從黑人聯盟的選手中進行評選，並選出薩奇·佩吉作為入選者。佩吉大部分的職棒生涯都在黑人聯盟度過，並到1948年才以40歲之齡登上大聯盟。不過佩吉因為在大聯盟只拿下28勝，導致他的入選在當時引發一些爭議（大聯盟自2020年起才將黑人聯盟的數據納入大聯盟數據內一起進行名人堂考核評選）。7月，大聯盟表示未來將會有更多的黑人聯盟選手入選名人堂。8月，佩吉成為第一位入選名人堂的黑人聯盟球員。 該年票選遵循1968年重新引入的票選規則，全美棒球記者協會進行年度票選，但最後沒有球員突破75%的得票率。資深選手委員會在這年進行閉門會議，他們從行政人員、總教練、主審和更早期的大聯盟選手中進行評選。最後他們選出戴夫·班克羅夫特、傑克·貝克利、齊克·哈菲、哈利·胡珀、、魯布·馬夸德和。大聯盟後來在1971年8月9日舉辦入選典禮。 (zh)
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