George Hendrick Marquee

He stopped talking to the press early in his career and mostly did not start again, which got him called Silent George and cost him a reputation he had earned on the field: 1,980 hits, 267 home runs, 1,111 runs batted in and a .278 average across eighteen seasons, with four All-Star selections and two Silver Sluggers.

He is also the reason ballplayers stopped showing their socks. He began wearing the uniform trousers down to the shoe in the 1970s, everyone copied it, and it took thirty years and a deliberate revival for the old look to come back.

He won the World Series with Oakland in 1972 as a twenty-two-year-old reserve and again with St. Louis in 1982, where he drove in the go-ahead run in the seventh game. His best season was 1980: 25 home runs, 109 runs batted in, .302. He got no votes at all in 1994 and has coached in the major leagues since.