Marcus Hook native Mickey Vernon came less than a handful of votes away from being inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

When voting results of the Veterans Committee's pre-1943 ballot were released Monday afternoon at Major League Baseball's winter meetings in Las Vegas, Vernon was on the outside looking in.

Vernon appeared on five of 12 possible ballots, falling four votes shy. Players needed to appear on 75 percent of the ballots, and thus, receive nine votes.

Among the players on the pre-1943 and post-1942 ballots, only one player was voted in - nine-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion Joe Gordon.