Out of all of the players to ever make their names as second basemen in Major League Baseball, there are only 20 of them to be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, fewer than all positions except catcher, third baseman, and designated hitter. Among these few inducted second basemen are true legends of the sport, without whom the story of baseball cannot be told, like Jackie Robinson, and others who will come up in any old timer’s recitation of great names: Johnny Evers (as in Tinker to Evers to Chance), Nellie Fox, Red Schoendienst.
Nor is it only the old days where great Hall of Fame second basemen were to be found.