Dave Winfield Marquee Hall of Fame 2001

San Diego drafted him out of the University of Minnesota in 1973, as did basketball and football clubs, and he was in the major leagues by that June. He gave the Padres eight seasons, drove in 118 runs to lead the National League in 1979, and began a run of twelve consecutive All-Star selections.

New York signed him for 1981. He drove in a hundred runs six times there and won five of his seven Gold Gloves, and he spent those years feuding with George Steinbrenner, who called him Mr. May and later paid a gambler for damaging information about him. Back surgery took all of 1989 away from him.

He returned at thirty-eight, was traded to California in 1990, and The Sporting News named him its comeback player of the year. Toronto signed him as a designated hitter for 1992, and his double in the eleventh inning of Game 6 finished the World Series. He singled twice for Minnesota on September 16, 1993, for hit number 3,000, at forty-one.