Dick Allen and Dave Parker were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame on Sunday.

Allen, a seven-time All-Star who hit 351 home runs in his 15 seasons in the majors, and Parker, who won two batting titles and hit 339 home runs in 19 big league seasons, were chosen by the Classic Baseball Era Committee. The eight-person ballot — seven players and one manager — was made up of candidates whose primary contribution to baseball came before 1980.

Candidates needed 12 votes (75%) to earn election. Parker was named on 14 of 16 ballots and Allen on 13 of 16 ballots. The ballot included Ken Boyer, John Wesley Donaldson, Steve Garvey, Vic Harris, Tommy John and Luis Tiant.

Tiant, who died Oct. 8 at 83, won 229 games in his 19 major league seasons. He spent the 1970 season with the Twins, going 7-3 with a 3.40 ERA in 18 appearances, but was released at the end of spring training in 1971. He pitched in the majors until 1982.

John won 288 games in a 26-year career that ended in 1989. He was a four-time All-Star Game selection — three after his groundbreaking elbow surgery in 1974. John was a Twins television broadcaster in 1994.

For Donaldson, who pitched professionally for 33 years in the Negro Leagues and pre-Negro Leagues, it was the third time on a Hall of Fame ballot. In 2006 he was on the final ballot of the Special Committee on Negro Leagues but was not one of 17 inducted.

Three years ago, he was on the Early Baseball Committee ballot but fell four votes short of the 12 needed. Bud Fowler, who was the first Black player in organized baseball in 1884 when he pitched for Stillwater of the Northwestern League, was elected.

Donaldson's career has been documented by a group of researchers led by Pete Gorton, a Minneapolis baseball historian. The group has determined that Donaldson pitched in 744 cities in the U.S. and Canada — including at least 130 towns in Minnesota — while playing for barnstoming teams. According to the group's numbers, Donaldson has 428 victories and 5,295 strikeouts and threw 14 no-hitters. In 1949, he became the first Black scout in the majors, for the Chicago White Sox.

Parker, 73, and Allen, who died in 2020, will be joined in the Hall of Fame Class of 2025 by any electees who emerge from the Baseball Writers' Association of America voting, which will be announced Jan. 21.