Mark Grace Marquee

He had 1,754 hits and 364 doubles between 1990 and 1999, more than any other player in the decade, and led the National League in neither category except doubles once, in 1995. It is the purest example of what accumulating does: he simply hit .300 for ten years running and everyone else had a worse season somewhere.

Sixteen seasons gave him 2,445 hits, 511 doubles, 1,075 walks and a .303 average, with four Gold Gloves at first base and three All-Star selections. Thirteen of them were with the Cubs, and he never once hit 20 home runs in a season.

He signed with Arizona at thirty-six and led off the ninth inning of the seventh game of the 2001 World Series with a single against Mariano Rivera, which started the rally that won it. The 2009 ballot gave him 22 votes of 539.