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In 1979 he hit .295 with 35 home runs, 111 runs batted in and 109 walks, finished second to Don Baylor in the Most Valuable Player voting with 241 points of 392, and Baltimore won 102 games and the pennant. Fifteen seasons gave him 2,029 hits, 246 home runs, 1,065 runs batted in, 1,263 walks and a .282 average, with three All-Star selections.

Montreal traded him to Baltimore after the 1974 season in a deal that also sent Mike Torrez, and it is one of the reasons the Orioles were what they were for the next decade. He was a switch-hitter who walked more than he struck out in most seasons, which the era did not much reward.

He won the Roberto Clemente Award in 1982 and was the designated hitter for the 1983 club that won the World Series. He broadcast Yankees and Expos games for more than thirty years afterward, which is how most people under fifty know him. The 1990 ballot gave him no votes.