COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- The once-dead Hall of Fame candidacies of Dwight Evans, Bobby Grich and Ted Simmons were brought back to life Monday.

And people like Hank Aaron, Willie Mays and Sandy Koufax are no longer just Hall of Famers. They're Hall of Fame voters.

Hall of Fame voting

Members of the newly expanded, 90-member Baseball of Hall of Fame Veterans Committee, which replaces the 15-member committee that had existed since 1953: Hall of Famers (61) Hank Aaron, Sparky Anderson, Luis Aparicio, Ernie Banks, Johnny Bench, Yogi Berra, Lou Boudreau, George Brett, Lou Brock, Jim Bunning, Rod Carew, Steve Carlton, Orlando Cepeda, Larry Doby, Bobby Doerr, Bob Feller, Rollie Fingers, Carlton Fisk, Whitey Ford, Bob Gibson, Monte Irvin, Reggie Jackson, Ferguson Jenkins, Al Kaline, George Kell, Harmon Killebrew, Ralph Kiner, Sandy Koufax, Tom Lasorda, Al Lopez, Lee MacPhail, Juan Marichal, Willie Mays, Bill Mazeroski, Willie McCovey, Joe Morgan, Stan Musial, Phil Niekro, Jim Palmer, Tony Perez, Gaylord Perry, Kirby Puckett, Phil Rizzuto, Robin Roberts, Brooks Robinson, Frank Robinson, Nolan Ryan, Mike Schmidt, Red Schoendienst, Tom Seaver, Enos Slaughter, Duke Snider, Warren Spahn, Don Sutton, Earl Weaver, Hoyt Wilhelm, Billy Williams, Ted Williams, Dave Winfield, Carl Yastrzemski, Robin Yount. Ford C. Frick Award winners (broadcasters, 13) Marty Brennaman, Jack Buck, Herb Carneal, Joe Garagiola, Curt Gowdy, Ernie Harwell, Milo Hamilton, Jaimie Jarrin, Bob Murphy, Felo Ramirez, Vin Scully, Chuck Thompson, Bob Wolff. J.G. Taylor Spink Award winners (writers, 13) Bob Broeg, Ritter Collett, Joe Durso, Charley Feeney, Jerome Holtzman, Leonard Koppett, Sam Lacy, Jack Lang, Hal Lebovitz, Allen Lewis, Edgar Munzel, Ross Newhan, Bob Stevens. Former Veterans Committee members- unexpired terms (3) Ken Coleman, John McHale, Bill White.

Those were among the stunning, sweeping changes instituted Monday by the Hall of Fame's board of directors at their annual meeting.

In the future, the old Veterans Committee will be replaced by a committee including all living members of the Hall of Fame, all living sportswriters who are in the Hall via the Spink Award and all living broadcasters who are in via the Ford Frick Award.

Another major change will restore the Hall eligibility of all players who played 10 years in the big leagues, except for players such as Pete Rose who are on the "ineligible" list, will be considered by the new Veterans Committee under a new screening system.

So players such as Evans, Grich, Simmons, Larry Bowa, Jeff Reardon and Al Oliver -- who dropped off the baseball writers' ballot after failing to receive 5 percent of the vote -- can now be considered by the new committee. That's roughly 1,700 former players.

"We've given them hope again," said Hall of Fame second baseman Joe Morgan, the vice chairman of the Hall of Fame Board of Directors. "They have a second chance ... and the players felt very strongly about this."

The changes go into effect immediately, but the first revised election won't be held until 2003 -- creating the possibility that, unless baseball writers elect a Hall of Famer next winter, there won't be a Hall of Fame induction ceremony next summer.

Top candidates next winter include Ozzie Smith, Andre Dawson and Alan Trammell.

Another change is that all Hall of Fame voting -- not just by the writers, but by the new Veterans Committee -- will be made public. Previously, the 15-member Veterans Committee revealed only who was elected, but not who finished second or third in the balloting.

Other changes include: