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Lee Smith, Baines earn election to Hall of Fame

Former closer Lee Smith is elected to enter the Hall of Fame in 2019 via the Today's Game Era ballot

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Lee Smith and Harold Baines are headed to Cooperstown.

The Today's Game Era Committee -- a 16-member Hall of Fame Board-appointed electorate -- voted Baines and Smith into the National Baseball Hall of Fame class of 2019 on Sunday at the Winter Meetings in Las Vegas.