Rico Carty

Ricardo "Beeg Boy" Carty was a Dominican outfielder who played in Major League Baseball from 1963 to 1979. He spent his most prominent years with the Atlanta Braves, helping the franchise claim its first National League Western Division title in 1969. Carty won the 1970 NL batting title with a .366 average — the highest mark in the league that season — and earned his spot in the 1970 All-Star Game as a write-in candidate. He posted a career batting average of .299 across stints with the Cubs, Athletics, Indians, Blue Jays, and Rangers. His career was interrupted repeatedly by injuries and tuberculosis. He was inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Braves Hall of Fame in 2023.