Bobby Doerr Marquee Hall of Fame 1986

Boston bought his contract out of the Pacific Coast League when he was a teenager, and he never played for another organization. He drove in 100 runs in six different seasons, led the American League with 11 triples in 1950, made nine All-Star teams, and was named The Sporting News Player of the Year for 1944.

He spent 1945 in the Army and came back to a pennant, driving in 116 runs while Boston won 104 games in 1946. Ted Williams called him the silent captain of the Red Sox. He finished with 2,042 hits, 223 home runs, 1,247 runs batted in and a .288 average, all of it in one uniform.

A back injury finished him after 1951. He was 33, and he had hit .289 that season. The writers moved him along slowly, from two votes in 1953 to 78 in 1971, never close to election, and the Veterans Committee took him in 1986. He died in 2017 at 99, the oldest living Hall of Famer at the end.