Claudell Washington Marquee

He was twenty when he hit .308 with 182 hits and 40 stolen bases for the 1975 Athletics and made the All-Star team, having won the World Series the year before as a rookie. He had been playing organized baseball for four years; Oakland found him on a California sandlot.

Seventeen seasons gave him 1,884 hits, 164 home runs, 312 stolen bases, 334 doubles and a .278 average, with two All-Star selections. He hit three home runs in a game twice, six years apart, for two clubs.

He signed with Atlanta in 1981 for five years and $3.5 million, which was among the first large free-agent contracts an outfielder of his sort received. He died of prostate cancer in 2020, at sixty-five. The 1996 ballot gave him no votes.