The best baseball players born on Sept. 14

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Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Sept. 14.

1) Kid Nichols (1869)
Nichols captured an MLB-best 298 wins over 490 appearances (441 starts) during the 1890s. The right-hander tallied 47 complete games and seven shutouts when he was a 20-year-old rookie for the 1890 Boston Beaneaters. He led the NL in wins for three straight seasons from 1896-98 and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1949. His 362 wins rank seventh all-time.

2) Tim Wallach (1957)
Wallach was a five-time All-Star who won two Silver Slugger Awards and three Gold Glove Awards while playing for the Expos from 1980-92. Though he might have been overshadowed by Hall of Famers Tim Raines and Andre Dawson in Montreal, Wallach was highly respected by his peers. He finished fourth in MVP balloting after hitting 26 homers and an NL-best 42 doubles for the Expos in 1987.

3) David Bell (1972)
Bell played for six different teams over 12 MLB seasons before filling his current role as the Reds manager. His grandfather, Gus Bell, earned four All-Star selections and his father, Buddy Bell, collected five All-Star bids. The third-generation big leaguer hit a career-high 21 homers for the 1999 Mariners.

4) Jerry Coleman (1924)
Coleman appeared in the World Series during six of his nine seasons as a Yankees infielder. The former second baseman finished third in American League Rookie of the Year balloting in 1949 and earned his only All-Star selection the following year. He delivered a pair of game-winning hits while playing an instrumental role in New York's 1950 World Series win. But he missed most of the next two seasons while serving as a fighter pilot during the Korean War. A veteran of both World War II and the Korean War, Coleman became a Hall of Fame broadcaster for the Yankees and Padres. He spent 41 of his 42 years in San Diego’s broadcast booth. He was absent in 1980, when he had a one-year stint as the Padres' manager.

5) Gregory Polanco (1991)
Polanco struggled to stay healthy while spending each of his eight seasons with the Pirates. The outfielder hit a career-high 23 homers in 2018. But he totaled just 24 more over the three following seasons. Against the Brewers on July 14, 2018, he teamed with Starling Marte to become just the third set of teammates to hit back-to-back homers in both ends of a doubleheader.

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