Off the field, Rogers Hornsby was tough, uncompromising and outspoken. On it, he was perhaps the greatest right-handed batter in baseball history.
Hornsby, whose modern era season-record .424 batting average and .358 lifetime mark for 23 big league campaigns established him as the standard for right-handed batters, was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1942.
He led the National League in batting seven times, including a fantastic six-year stretch from 1920 through 1925 during which he averaged .402.
