Roy Sievers Marquee

In 1957 he hit 42 home runs and drove in 114 to lead the American League in both, playing for a Washington club that finished last at 55-99. The next man on that roster, Jim Lemon, hit 17. He was the reason to go to Griffith Stadium, and the city treated him accordingly.

He was the first Rookie of the Year the American League named after the award was split by league, in 1949, for the St. Louis Browns. A shoulder that came apart in 1951 nearly ended it — he was sent to the minor leagues and rebuilt the swing — and the seventeen seasons that followed gave him 1,703 hits, 318 home runs, 1,147 runs batted in and four All-Star selections.

Washington traded him to Chicago in 1960, and after Philadelphia he came back to play for the second Washington club, the expansion one, in 1964. Two writers' ballots gave him four votes and then three, and three Veterans Committees have looked at him since. He died in 2017, at ninety.