Usage

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{{Infobox Baseball Hall of Fame ballot
|new_inductees=
|BBWAA=
|Centennial=
|Special=
|OTC=
|Veterans=
|NLC=
|CAAB=
|EEC=
|GEC=
|PEC=
|TGEC=
|MBEC=
|GDEC=
|EBEC=
|CBEC=
|ClassicBEC=
|inductees=
|date=
|before=
|after=
}}

Parameters

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new_inductees
total number of persons selected to the Hall of Fame in the given balloting
BBWAA
number of those persons selected by BBWAA balloting
Centennial
# via Centennial Commission (this committed operated in 1937 and 1938)
Special
# via Special Election (used rarely, such as for Lou Gehrig in 1939)
OTC
# via Old Timers Committee (this committee operated from 1939 to 1952)
Veterans
# via Veterans Committee (this committee operated from 1953 to 2010)
NLC
# via Negro Leagues Committee (this committee operated from 1971 to 1977)
CAAB
# via Committee on African-American Baseball (this committee operated in 2006 only)
EEC
# via Expansion Era Committee (this committee operated from 2011 to 2016)
GEC
# via Golden Era Committee (this committee operated from 2011 to 2016)
PEC
# via Pre-Integration Era Committee (this committee operated from 2011 to 2016)
TGEC
# via Today's Game Era Committee (this committee operated from 2017 to 2021)
MBEC
# via Modern Baseball Era Committee (this committee operated from 2017 to 2021)
GDEC
# via Golden Days Era Committee (this committee operated from 2017 to 2021)
EBEC
# via Early Baseball Era Committee (this committee operated from 2017 to 2021)
CBEC
# via Contemporary Baseball Era Committee (this committee has existed since 2022)
ClassicBEC
# via Classic Baseball Era Committee (this committee has existed since 2022)
inductees
total number of persons ever selected to the Hall of Fame (prior total + new this year)
date
date of formal induction to the hall (ceremony in Cooperstown)
before
prior year of balloting (link to prior article; note that balloting was not always done annually)
after
next year of balloting (link to next article; note that balloting was not always done annually)

Examples

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Infobox Baseball Hall of Fame ballot/doc
New inductees8
via Veterans Committee7
via Negro Leagues Committee1
Total inductees126
Induction dateAugust 9, 1971
← 1970
1972 →
{{Infobox Baseball Hall of Fame ballot
|new_inductees=8
|Veterans=7
|NLC=1
|inductees=126
|date=August 9, 1971
|before=1970
|after=1972
}}
Infobox Baseball Hall of Fame ballot/doc
New inductees5
via BBWAA2
via Contemporary Baseball Era Committee1
via Classic Baseball Era Committee2
Total inductees333
Induction dateJuly 4, 2022
← 2021
2023 →
{{Infobox Baseball Hall of Fame ballot
|new_inductees=5
|BBWAA=2
|CBEC=1
|ClassicBEC=2
|inductees=333
|date=July 4, 2022
|before=2021
|after=2023
}}