Hank O'Day Marquee Hall of Fame 2013

The record kept here for him is a pitcher's, and it is not a good one. He went 73-110 over seven seasons with a 3.74 earned run average, completing 177 of his 192 starts. Four of those seasons were spent in Washington, where the club finished last three times and never won more than 48 games.

Twice he was on a winner. He joined the New York Giants in 1889 and went 9-1 for a club that took the pennant and the World Series. The next year he jumped to the Players' League and went 22-13. That was the end of his playing career; he was thirty-one.

He spent the rest of his working life umpiring, and that is what the Hall of Fame elected him for, in 2013, seventy-eight years after he died. He was the umpire who ruled Fred Merkle out at second base in 1908, leaving a Cubs-Giants game tied and forcing the replay that settled the pennant. The statistical record here is the pitcher's.