Lou Piniella and Davey Johnson, ex-Cincinnati managers, among 2024 Cooperstown candidates
Former Cincinnati Reds managers Lou Piniella and Davey Johnson are up for election into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in 2024.
Piniella managed the Reds from 1990, when Cincinnati last won a World Series title, to 1992. He also managed the New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays and Chicago Cubs.
Johnson managed the Reds from 1993 to 1995. He also managed the New York Mets, Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers and Washington Nationals.
Piniella and Johnson joined fellow former managers Cito Gaston and Jim Leyland, umpires Ed Montague and Joe West, and executives Hank Peters and Bill White on the ballot of eight candidates to be considered by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee for Managers, Executives and Umpires.
The ballot features candidates whose primary contribution to the game came since 1980.
The results of the committee's vote will be announced live on MLB Network's "MLB Tonight" on Sunday, December 3 at 7:30 p.m. Eastern.
Any candidate receiving votes on 75 percent of the ballots cast by the committee will earn election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. The Class of 2024, which will include anyone from the 2024 Baseball Writers' Association of America election to be announced in January, is scheduled to be inducted in Cooperstown on July 21.
The Contemporary Baseball Era Committee is one of three groups eligible for Hall of Fame consideration as part of the Era Committee process.
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This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: 2024 Baseball Hall of Fame: Lou Piniella, Davey Johnson on ballot
