Election day

While everyone in the baseball world seems to lose their collective minds 10 years ago today over the perceived injustice of pitcher Greg Maddux failing to receive 100 percent of the vote in the Hall of Fame election – he receives 555 of 571 possible votes – please note nine idiots once fail to turn in a ballot with the name of Hank Aaron.

Aaron, the game’s all-time home run leader in the pre-steroid era, receives, ahem, only 97.8 percent of the vote for his election to the Hall of Fame 42 years ago today.

Aaron is elected in his first year of eligibility along with the nearly equally great and often as overlooked Frank Robinson, whose name inexplicably also is left off 45 of the 415 ballots cast that year.

To this day, New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera remains the lone unanimous selection for the Hall of Fame with that coming in 2019 when his name appears on all 425 ballots cast.

Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson