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McGwire, Gwynn, Ripken among Hall candidates

Mark McGwire, Tony Gwynn and Cal Ripken Jr. headline the first-time candidates on the 2007 baseball writers’ Hall of Fame ballot.

The Associated Press surveyed about 20 percent of eligible voters, and only one in four who gave an opinion plan to vote for McGwire this year. That’s far short of the 75 percent necessary to gain induction. Jose Canseco, also on the ballot for the first time, accused McGwire of steroid use in a book.

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