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Here’s a subjective ranking of the top five for Sept. 9:

1) Frankie Frisch (1897)
You don’t often see future Hall of Famers in the prime of their careers traded for one another, but Frisch found himself in such a deal when the New York Giants sent him to the St. Louis Cardinals for Rogers Hornsby in 1926. Up until then, Frisch had compiled 1,303 hits through eight seasons with the Giants, with whom he won two World Series. Frisch kept right on hitting with the Cards, batting .312 over 11 seasons. He won the NL MVP Award in 1931 en route to another championship. His fourth and final World Series title came as a player-manager in 1934. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1947 -- five years after Hornsby -- Frisch had a lifetime average of .316 with 2,880 hits in 19 seasons. He racked up 58 hits in the Fall Classic, the third most in MLB history.

2) Frank Chance (1876)
The third man in the famous “Tinker to Evers to Chance” line from “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon,” this Hall of Fame first baseman guided the Cubs as a player-manager to four pennants and two World Series titles from 1906-10. Chance led MLB with 103 runs and 57 stolen bases in the first season of that five-year span and registered a 135 OPS+ through his 19-year career. However, Chance played more than 130 games in a season only once as he was often injured, thanks in large part to being hit by 137 pitches. The Cubs actually released Chance in 1912 while he was hospitalized after undergoing brain surgery as a result of all those beanballs.

3) Waite Hoyt (1899)
Hoyt signed his first pro contract with the New York Giants at age 15, earning him the nickname of “Schoolboy,” which appears on his Hall of Fame plaque. Yet Hoyt pitched in only one game with the Giants and briefly quit professional baseball as a 19-year-old after the team demoted him to the Minors in 1918. Hoyt ended up spending a plurality of his 21-year career with the New York Yankees. He earned 157 of his 237 career victories with the Yanks and was the staff ace of the 1927 team, one of the greatest in MLB history. Hoyt went 22-7 with a 2.63 ERA that year. After he retired, the three-time World Series champion served as the radio play-by-play voice of the Cincinnati Reds from 1942-65.

4) Mike Hampton (1972)
Prior to the 2001 season, Hampton signed what was at the time the most lucrative contract in MLB history: an eight-year deal worth $121 million with the Colorado Rockies. Hampton earned those dollars after finishing as the NL Cy Young Award runner-up while with the Astros in 1999 and as the NLCS MVP while with the Mets in 2000. Although he struggled on the mound with Colorado, Hampton did capture two of his five Silver Slugger Awards with the Rockies, the most by any pitcher. His seven home runs in 2001 stand as the most by a primary starting pitcher since the advent of the designated hitter in 1973. In 2003 as a member of the Braves, Hampton became the first pitcher to pick up a Silver Slugger and a Gold Glove in the same year.

5) Alvin Davis (1960)
Davis debuted on April 11, 1984, and homered off of Dennis Eckersley in his second at-bat. Davis then went deep again in his next game, which made him just the seventh player in the previous 50 years to hit a home run in each of his first two games in the Majors. The man known as “Mr. Mariner” went on to record 27 homers, 116 RBIs and an .888 OPS that season and was named AL Rookie of the Year. Despite vision problems that affected his play over the next few seasons, Davis produced a 128 OPS+ in eight years with Seattle. In 1990, he became the first Mariner to reach 1,000 hits and was the first inductee into the franchise’s Hall of Fame seven years later.

Others of note:
Edwin Jackson (1983)
The journeyman right-hander played for more teams in AL/NL history than any other player, spending time with 14 franchises over his 17-year career. A top pitching prospect for the Dodgers, he debuted with L.A. on his 20th birthday in 2003. Jackson was an All-Star with the Tigers in 2009, won the World Series with the Cardinals in 2011 and took home a silver medal as a part of Team USA at the Olympics in 2021.

Todd Zeile (1965)
Zeile tallied 2,004 hits and 253 home runs through 16 MLB seasons. However, he is the only player to reach 2,000 hits and 250 homers without earning an All-Star selection since the game’s introduction in 1933.

Jerry Mumphrey (1952)
Mumphrey hit .293 and put up a 111 OPS+ from 1977-87. Speed was his greatest asset; he set a career high with 52 stolen bases in 1980 with the Padres. Mumphrey made his only All-Star team as a member of the Astros in 1984.

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