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The strangest things happened Wednesday.
Roberto Alomar, who was judged not ready for the Hall of Fame a year ago, was resoundingly pushed into Cooperstown.
And Bert Blyleven, who was judged not ready for induction 13 times in 13 years, finally made it on try No. 14.
All of which underscores the uneven process that is Hall of Fame induction.
In five years -- heck, maybe in five days -- there will be little doubt that both Alomar, perhaps the best second baseman of his time, and Blyleven, a dominant starting pitcher over the space of two decades, belong in the Hall.
But in the years of voting that led up to Wednesday's announcement, there apparently was an ocean of room for doubt. A year ago, Alomar got 397 of the 539 votes cast (73.7 percent) and missed out on a first-year entry because the rules say entry goes only to those getting 75 percent of votes cast.
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