PITTSBURGH -- Longtime Pirates manager Danny Murtaugh was not elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame through a committee vote, whose results were announced on Sunday.

The announcement was made following balloting from 16 members of the Hall's Golden Days Era Committee. The Golden Days Era ballot featured candidates whose primary contributions came between 1950-69, with four of the 10 candidates gaining election on Sunday: Gil Hodges, Jim Kaat, Minnie Miñoso and Tony Oliva.

According to the National Baseball Hall of Fame’s announcement, Murtaugh was one of five nominees on the Golden Days Era ballot to receive three or fewer votes. Twelve of the 16 potential votes were needed for enshrinement. It was his third time on a Hall of Fame ballot.

Murtaugh’s career in MLB began as an infielder -- primarily as a second baseman -- for the Phillies, Braves and Pirates between 1941-51. He led the National League in stolen bases (18) in his rookie season, then earned NL MVP Award votes in 1948 with the Bucs, when he batted .290 with 27 extra-base hits and 71 RBIs in 146 games.

But Murtaugh’s place in baseball history was cemented by his strong 15-year managerial tenure with Pittsburgh.

Of the eight managers who have at least 1,000 victories, a career .540 winning percentage and two World Series titles as skipper in MLB history, six have been inducted into the Hall of Fame. The two others are Terry Francona, who currently helms the Cleveland Guardians, and Murtaugh.

Due to health concerns, Murtaugh stepped away from managing three times in his career before passing away on Dec. 2, 1976, shortly after his final season as skipper.

“Whenever they needed him to come back, Joe Brown [the general manager] thought that he could work miracles,” former Pirates pitcher and broadcaster Steve Blass told MLB Network’s High Heat. “And he did work a couple of miracles.”

The first miracle came in 1960, when the 95-win Pirates took on a 97-win Yankees club coming off nine trips to the World Series and seven titles from 1949-59 under manager Casey Stengel. Pittsburgh was blown out by 10 or more runs in three games, but that didn’t faze Murtaugh and his Pirates, who won four close games -- the fourth secured by a five-run rally in the eighth to claim the World Series trophy.

The second came 11 years later, after Murtaugh had stopped managing the Pirates twice only to return to the club. Despite having future Hall of Famers like Willie Stargell and Roberto Clemente anchoring the team, the 97-win Pirates were still seen as the underdog to Earl Weaver’s 101-win Orioles. The Bucs were down, 0-2, in the series before winning the series in seven games.

Murtaugh also constructed the first all-Black and Afro-Latino lineup in AL/NL history in that title-winning 1971 season. With the decision to put left-handed-hitting Al Oliver at first base vs. Phillies lefty Woodie Fryman, the Pirates manager put together a historic lineup card, a fact that wasn’t widely appreciated until decades after it occurred.

Murtaugh finished his career with a 1,115-950 record as a manager.

There was a big push for Murtaugh’s election from his family and a number of Pirates greats and broadcasters ahead of the announcement on Sunday. Though he fell shy of enshrinement, his peers and Pirates fans will remember the quotable, successful Murtaugh -- whose No. 40 was retired by the Bucs -- for years to come.

“He treated us like professionals, gave us opportunities to succeed and put us in positions to win,” wrote former Pirates second baseman Bill Mazeroski in an op-ed for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.