Jim Wynn Marquee

He was five foot nine and hit 291 home runs, which is where the nickname came from. He also drew 1,224 walks and led the National League twice, with 148 in 1969 — 27 more than Willie McCovey took that year — which in a .250 hitter was treated at the time as a curiosity.

Fifteen seasons gave him 1,665 hits, 964 runs batted in, 1,105 runs and 225 stolen bases, with three All-Star selections. Nine of them were in Houston, in the Astrodome, which took home runs away from right-handed hitters as reliably as any park ever built. Los Angeles got him at thirty-one and he hit 32 home runs with 108 walks in 1974 and took the Dodgers to the World Series.

The 1983 ballot gave him no votes at all, which for that record is among the strangest results the writers have produced, and three committees have looked at him since. He worked for the Astros for years afterward and died in 2020, at seventy-eight.