NEW YORK (AP) -- Career steals leader Rickey Henderson heads 10 first-time candidates on this year's Baseball Hall of Fame ballot.
Other newcomers are Jay Bell, David Cone, Ron Gant, Mark Grace, Jesse Orosco, Dan Plesac, Greg Vaughn, Mo Vaughn and Matt Williams.
Just 23 players are on the ballot, the smallest group ever.
Holdovers include Mark McGwire, Jim Rice, Harold Baines, Bert Blyleven, Andre Dawson. Tommy John, Don Mattingly, Jack Morris, Dale Murphy, Dave Parker, Tim Raines, Lee Smith and Alan Trammell.
A 10-time All-Star who played from 1979-to-2003, Henderson holds the career records for steals, 1,406, and runs, 2,295, and his 2,190 walks are second to the 2,558 issued to Barry Bonds McGwire, eighth on the career home-run list with 583, received 128 votes in the 2008 election from 10-year members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America, matching his total from 2007, when he was eligible for the first time. His percentage of 23.6 percent was well short of the 75 percent necessary for election.
Rice received 392 votes, or 72.2 percent, in 2008, 16 short of the 75 percent needed.
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