Lance Berkman Marquee

Fifteen seasons gave him 1,905 hits, 366 home runs, 1,234 runs batted in, 1,201 walks and a .293 average. He led the National League in runs batted in in 2002 with 128 and in doubles twice, and was chosen for six All-Star teams. Twelve of the seasons were in Houston.

He switch-hit and drew walks at a rate almost nobody of his era matched — 1,201 against 1,905 hits — which is the part of the record that has aged best. His 2006 season, 45 home runs and 136 runs batted in, is the biggest of them.

A knee injury cost him most of 2010 and he was widely finished at thirty-five. St. Louis signed him for 2011, put him back in right field, and he hit .301 with 31 home runs, won Comeback Player of the Year, and drove in the tying run in the tenth inning of the sixth game of that World Series with the club one strike from losing. It won the next night.