Rickey Henderson, Jim Rice elected to Hall of Fame (AP)



Former Boston Red Sox player Jim Rice, left, smiles next to Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino, right, after a news conference at Boston's Fenway Park, Monday, Jan. 12, 2009, held to announce that Rice was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame. Rice joins Carl Yastrzemski, Ted Williams and Bobby Doerr as the only Hall of Famers who played their entire careers for Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP - Rickey Henderson sped his way into the Hall of Fame on the first ballot Monday, and Jim Rice made it in on his 15th and final try. Henderson, baseball’s career leader in runs scored and stolen bases, received 94.8 percent of the vote from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, well above the 75 percent needed.

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