Leo Durocher Marquee Hall of Fame 1994

He played 1,507 games at shortstop and hit .247 on 1,320 hits with 24 home runs across 17 seasons, and nobody pretended the bat was the point. He made the All-Star team in 1936, 1938 and 1940, starting at shortstop in the first two. He debuted at 20, in two games at the end of 1925.

He was on the roster when the Yankees won the World Series in 1928, and was the shortstop on the 1934 Cardinals when they won it, after Cincinnati sent him to St. Louis in mid-1933. Brooklyn took him for 1938 and soon made him its player-manager, after which his own playing shrank: 62 games in 1940, 18 in 1941, and eight more across 1943 and 1945.

The rest of him is the managing, which this archive does not hold. The commissioner suspended him for the whole 1947 season for conduct called detrimental to baseball; he came back and ran clubs in Brooklyn, New York, Chicago and Houston. The line about nice guys finishing last is his. The Veterans Committee elected him in 1994.