2015 Baseball Hall of Fame: A look at the ballot

With a new year comes a new chance for former players to gain entrance into the hall of baseball immortality. The Baseball Writer’s Association of America named 34 players to the 2015 ballot, 17 of them being first time contenders. Writers are limited to a maximum of only 10 votes per year, and with the surplus amount of talent on this year’s ballot, we can only hope for them to get it right.

First, here’s a look at the holdovers from years’ past.