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He played 1,555 of his 1,572 games at shortstop and batted .263 for his career. The 1944 award, in a wartime season, came with six home runs and 63 runs batted in. Eight consecutive All-Star teams chose him from 1943, and he led the National League in doubles in 1942 with 38.

St. Louis won the pennant in 1942, 1943, 1944 and 1946, and the World Series in three of those years. In 1944 the Browns won the American League, the only pennant they took in St. Louis, and both clubs played at Sportsman's Park, so the Series never left the building. Marion finished his own career with the Browns.

The record holds no 1951 season for him at all, between eleven years with the Cardinals and two with the Browns. He appeared on 28 Hall of Fame ballots across six decades, from the writers in 1956 to a Pre-Integration Era committee in 2016, and was elected on none. His most votes were 127 of 380 in 1973. He died in 2011 at 94.