As baseball wrestles with the whole issue of voting for its Hall of Fame -- should it be a public affair? Should Pete Rose be inducted? -- NASCAR is taking the process one step further and dumping it straight in your lap. Yes, in a first among major sports, NASCAR is allowing fans to have a say in who gets into the NASCAR Hall of Fame.
Here's how it works. NASCAR has announced 25 potential inductees; you can see them there at right. (Get out your spectacles.) Now, if you go to www.nascar.com/hall, you can vote for up to five of those legends to get into the Hall. All fans' votes together will constitute one of the 51 ballots determining induction into the Hall of Fame. So it's not like we're all going to be able to sway the vote for, I dunno, Buck Baker or anything, but we will have a voice, which is pretty cool.
Now, you've got to register with NASCAR, which means that they'll have your info and you sign away your right to criticize them now and forevermore,* but if you go to that link above, you'll be able to check out all kinds of biographical info on all the nominees so you can make a much more informed choice.
Or you can do it presidential-style, and vote for whoever you would most like to have a beer with. Wait a second -- that wouldn't work; I'd be up for a beer with all these guys. (Maybe not those who have passed on.) Anyway, go to it. Voting begins today, and the inductees will be announced in October.
* - Kidding. I think.
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