Several players who fell just short in the BBWAA balloting later were elected by either the Veterans Committee or Old-Timers' Committee: Nellie Fox (74.7 percent on the 1985 BBWAA ballot), Jim Bunning (74.2 percent in 1988), Orlando Cepeda (73.6 percent in 1994) and Frank Chance (72.5 percent in 1945).

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In one of the clearest indications of the passing of glasnost and the unfair, unfree quality of the balloting on the All-Union Treaty referendum, Leonid Kravchenko, chairman of the USSR State Committee for Broadcasting, declined on 15 March to give Russian President one hour of air time for an address to his fellow citizens.

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