Bob Lemon Marquee Hall of Fame 1976

Cleveland signed him to play third base, and he appeared in ten games across 1941 and 1942 before the Navy took him. He came back in 1946 and the club put him on the mound, where he stayed. He won 207 games with 188 complete games and 31 shutouts, and struck out 1,277 batters.

On June 30, 1948 he no-hit Detroit, 2-0. He led the American League with ten shutouts that season, won twenty games for the first time, and Cleveland won the World Series. He would take twenty or more seven times in all, lead the league in wins three times, and be an All-Star in seven straight years.

The 1954 Indians won 111 games, an American League record that lasted until 1998, and Lemon went 23-7. He kept hitting, too, and finished with 37 home runs, an unusual total for a pitcher. He managed after he was done, and the 1978 Yankees won the World Series under him.