Debuting on August 13 – Barry Larkin had the misfortune of spending the majority of his career playing in the shadow of other great shortstops. Ozzie Smith was considered to be the National League’s premier player at the position during Larkin’s first several years in the league, while Cal Ripken Jr. held that same distinction in the American League. Meanwhile, Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and Nomar Garciaparra took turns supplanting each other as baseball’s top shortstop during the second half of Larkin’s career. Still, Larkin was the National League’s best all-around player at the position for the better part of his 19-year major league career, surpassing Smith as the senior circuit’s preeminent shortstop at the beginning of the 1990s. In fact, even though Smith continued to receive more publicity than Larkin the next several years, the Cincinnati shortstop was clearly the better player. During the decade of the ’90s, Larkin batted over .300 seven times, hit more than 20 homers twice, scored more than 100 runs twice, stole more than 30 bases four times, and developed into one of the finest defensive shortstops in baseball. Larkin will get his due in 2012 when he is inducted into the Hall of Fame.

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