Tim Salmon Marquee

Only Rogers Hornsby, whose career was nearly over when the game was invented, hit more home runs without ever being selected for an All-Star team. Salmon hit 299 in fourteen seasons, all of them for the Angels, with 1,674 hits, 970 walks and a .282 average, and was never picked once.

He was the unanimous Rookie of the Year in 1993, all 28 first-place votes, and won a Silver Slugger in 1995 with 34 home runs and 105 runs batted in. He hit 33 with 129 runs batted in in 1997.

In the second game of the 2002 World Series he hit two home runs, the second of them in the eighth inning to win it, and Anaheim took the Series in seven for the only title the franchise has. He played his whole career for one club without ever being traded, which for a player of that quality is now unusual. The 2012 ballot gave him five votes of 573.