Cooperstown to add four

Three ace pitchers and one durable doubles machine achieved baseball's highest honor on Tuesday.

Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, John Smoltz and Craig Biggio were elected to the Hall of Fame, marking the first time in 60 years that the baseball writers chose four players in the same class.

More than half the voters selected the maximum 10 players from a ballot that included some stars with strong ties to steroids.

Biggio amassed 3,060 hits across 20 seasons with the Houston Astros and ranks fifth on the career list in doubles, with 668.

Johnson (97.3 percent), Martinez (91.1 percent) and Smoltz (82.9 percent) were making their debut on the ballot, having played their final games in 2009.

Smoltz thrived as a starter and a reliever, and is the only pitcher with 200 victories and 150 saves.

Martinez was 219-100 with a 2.93 earned run average, but his true greatness was in comparison to his peers in an era of overwhelming offense.

(Greg Maddux and Tom Glavine were inducted last year.) The Braves won 14 division titles, five pennants and the 1995 World Series during Smoltz's career.

Bonds, the career home run leader, and Clemens, the career leader in Cy Young Awards, have been strongly linked to steroid use, though neither ever served a suspension for it from Major League Baseball.