Dennis Martínez Marquee

He was the first Nicaraguan in the major leagues, arriving with Baltimore in 1976, and finished with 245 wins — more than any pitcher born in Latin America had at the time — across twenty-three seasons and 3,999 innings, with a 3.70 earned run average and 122 complete games.

On July 28, 1991, at thirty-seven and pitching for Montreal, he retired all twenty-seven Dodgers he faced. Fewer than twenty men had done it in the game's history to that point. He led the National League in shutouts that season and had led the American League in wins ten years earlier.

Alcoholism nearly ended him in the mid-1980s: Baltimore gave up on him in 1986 and Montreal took him for almost nothing. He stopped drinking, and the second half of the career is longer and better than the first. He pitched until he was forty-four. The writers gave him 16 votes of 506 in 2004.