Billy Rogell Marquee

He hit 175 hits and drove in 100 runs in 1934, playing shortstop for the Detroit club that won its first pennant in twenty-five years, and turned the double play with Charlie Gehringer for most of a decade. He hit .275 with 154 hits the following season, when the Tigers won the World Series.

Fourteen seasons gave him 1,375 hits, 256 doubles, 755 runs batted in, 649 walks and a .267 average, with 1,235 games at shortstop. He struck out rarely for a middle infielder of any era and drew enough walks to be a genuine on-base threat ahead of Detroit's power hitters.

He retired from baseball at thirty-five and was elected to the Detroit City Council, where he served for thirty-eight years, becoming known for his frugality with public money. He died in 2003, three months short of his ninety-ninth birthday.