By WFAN.com
Former Yankees owner George Steinbrenner has been named to the Today's Game Era ballot, the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced Monday afternoon.
The Today's Game Era is one of the four Eras Committees, providing a possible route to the Hall of Fame for managers, umpires and executives, in addition to players that have been retired for more than 15 seasons.
Steinbrenner is one of 10 members of the baseball community named to the ballot.
The former owner bought the Yankees in 1973 and helped lead the team to seven World Series titles before his death in 2010.
Harold Baines, Albert Belle, Joe Carter, Will Clark, Orel Hershiser, Davey Johnson, Charlie Manuel, Lou Piniella and Lee Smith join Steinbrenner as the candidates the Today's Game Era Committee will consider for Hall of Fame election for the Class of 2019.
Any candidate that receives votes on 75 percent of the ballots cast by the 16-member committiee will be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
The vote will take place at the Baseball Winter Meetings in Las Vegas on December 9, and will be announced later in the month. Any electees will be inducted in Cooperstown on July 21, 2019.





