Both are deserving.. It's about time for Bert, it was disgrace that he waited this long...
Anyways, someone earlier mentioned something about the voters making sure that at least on person gets in each year...Perfect evidence is that if you look at the old voting history, you'll notice that if no one was elected on the main BWAA ballot that they would do a "runoff vote" of the top 20 players from the initial ballot, with the highest vote-getter being elected. The last instance of this was in '67 when both Red Ruffing and Joe Medwick fell short with 72.6%, and then in the "runoff", Ruffing had 86.9% and Medwick 81%...But again, only the top vote-getter got elected in Ruffing.
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