Jocko Conlan Marquee Hall of Fame 1974

He batted .263 with 96 hits over 128 games for Chicago in 1934 and 1935, playing 91 of them in the outfield. The story is that in 1935 an umpire went down in the heat at Comiskey Park and Conlan, on the bench, filled in. He never played again after that season.

The game logs name him behind the plate 1,076 times between April 18, 1941 and June 4, 1965, across twenty-five seasons. He worked Lon Warneke's no-hitter in August 1941 and Carl Erskine's in June 1952, both of which have pages here.

He wore a polka-dot bow tie and used an outside chest protector long after the league had moved to the inside one, and neither is the sort of thing a record keeps. The Hall of Fame elected him in 1974, while he was alive.