NEW YORK--The name of George Sisler, one of the greatest first-basemen of all time, today led all the rest as he and two other diamond immortals--"Wee Willie" Keeler and Eddie Collins--were elected to baseball's hall of fame.
Sisler, now a radio sports announcer and High Commissioner of the National Semi-Pro Baseball Congress, took his place in the Cooperstown Shrine, with the greatest landslide of votes in the history of balloting.
Of 274 members of the Baseball Writers Association who participated in the poll, 235 of them voted for Sisler. Collins, vice-president-treasurer of the Boston Red Sox, received 213 votes and the late Keeler of "hit 'em where they aint" fame barely squeezed in. He was picked by 207 writers, one more than the 75 per cent total, or 206, necessary for election this year.
