Gwynn is the name I want to argue for. He hit .394 in 1994 and the strike ended the season on August 11. He was 34 years old, and nobody has gotten that close since. Watching a man who almost never missed the ball is its own kind of entertainment, and it is a slower kind than this poll usually rewards. Griffey wins this one and probably should, because the swing is the most copied piece of footage in the sport, and no amount of arguing on my part is going to change that. Two of these guys are here for what they did before the decade even started, and I put them on the card anyway. Rickey was 31 in 1990 and led the American League in steals that year, again in 1991, and once more in 1998 at age 39. Ozzie was 35 and worth the ticket price on his own. Neither of them needed the decade to make the case.