Ken Williams Marquee

In 1922 he hit 39 home runs, drove in 155 and stole 37 bases, leading the American League in the first two. It is the first 30-30 season anybody had, thirty-four years before Willie Mays had the next one, and he did it in the year Babe Ruth was suspended for six weeks and finished with 35.

Fourteen seasons gave him 1,552 hits, 196 home runs, 913 runs batted in, 566 walks and a .319 average. He did not hold a regular job until he was twenty-eight, having spent years in the minor leagues and one in the Army, and he hit .332 or better four times after thirty.

The 1922 Browns won 93 games and finished a game behind the Yankees, which is the closest that franchise came in St. Louis. Two writers' ballots gave him one vote each; four committees have looked at him. He died in 1959, at sixty-eight.