Billy Jurges Marquee

On July 6, 1932, a woman named Violet Popovich came to his room at the Hotel Carlos with a pistol. In the struggle he was shot in the hand and the ribs. He refused to press charges, missed about two weeks, and Chicago won the pennant with him at shortstop for 115 games.

Seventeen seasons gave him 1,613 hits, 245 doubles, 656 runs batted in and a .258 average, with 1,540 games at shortstop and three All-Star selections. He was a fielder first — the Cubs won pennants in 1932, 1935 and 1938 with him there — and he was traded to the Giants in 1939 for Dick Bartell.

He came back to Chicago in 1946 and finished the next year at thirty-eight. He managed the Red Sox in 1959 and 1960 and scouted afterward. Two ballots gave him a vote or two. He died in 1997, at eighty-eight.