TORONTO A.L. (1838) ROUGH RIDERS N.L. (1839-1851) CAROLINA N.L. (1852)
12-time all-star. Retired 6th all-time in home runs, 3rd in hits. Won '39 N.L. Most Valuable Player award.
He's one of those guys that suffered from playing on a bad team forever. A ton of strikeouts he had, so I was sorta thinking he's one of those "second ballot" types, but..it's hard to argue with the career he had considering he was a consistent hitter for one of the worst teams in the league for almost his entire career, that he'd won an MVP and was an All-Star game mainstay for pretty much all of his years.
That put him over the top for me.