Derek Jeter’s passage into baseball’s Hall of Fame was as brisk and predictable as Larry Walker’s was arduous and dramatic. The final of the New York Yankees’ single-digit legends, Jeter on Tuesday simply missed changing into the second participant shipped off to Cooperstown in unanimous style, receiving 396 of 397 votes in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Teammate Mariano Rivera was the primary unanimous choice final yr. Walker, whose climb to the 75 % vote whole required for induction seemed not possible simply three years in the past, earned 76.6 % of the vote — getting in by 10 votes — incomes induction in his 10th and ultimate look on the poll.