NEW YORK -- Barry Larkin, who is already in the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame, will have to wait before he can call himself a member of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame.
On Wednesday, the Baseball Writers' Association of America announced that Andre Dawson was the only player elected to the Hall of Fame this year.
Dawson received 420 of 539 votes, 15 more than the 75 percent necessary to gain election. The eight-time All-Star, appearing on the ballot for the ninth time, had fallen 44 votes short last year.
Larkin, a first-year candidate, received 51.6 percent. He played 19 seasons in the majors. He was a 12-time All Star, won multiple Gold Gloves and was the NL MVP in 1995 when he helped lead the Reds to a division title.
Bert Blyleven and Roberto Alomar fell just short of earning baseball's highest honor.
Blyleven had 400 votes, up from 338 last year, and will likely get in because he has two more tries on the BBWAA ballot.
Alomar received 397 votes in his first appearance and was followed by Jack Morris with 282.
The other first-year candidates who received sufficient support to remain other than Alomar and Larkin were designated hitter-third baseman Edgar Martinez with 195 (36.2 percent) and first baseman Fred McGriff with 116 (21.5 percent).
Mark McGwire received 128 votes (23.7 percent), 10 more than last year and matching the total from his first two times on the ballot. Eighth on the career list with 583 homers, he has been stigmatized since evading questions from Congress in 2005 about steroids use.
Players may remain on the ballot for up to 15 years provided they receive five percent of the vote in any year. There were 11 candidates who failed to make the cut this year, all among the 15 players who were on the ballot for the first time.
Associated Press writer Ronald Blum and the Baseball Writers' Association of America contributed to this story.
