Jimmy Collins did a lot of things beautifully on the baseball diamond that may not be considered sexy but it they went noticed and he generated a Hall of Fame career out of it, which included five seasons with the Boston Beaneaters. 

Charlie Buffinton began his career with the Boston Red Stockings in 1882 and in the following year when the team renamed themselves the Beanaters Buffinton became a star Pitcher where he would win 20 Games each year from 1883 to 1885.  The sinkerball specialist had an incredible 1884 campaign where he went 48 and 16 with a 2.15 ERA and he was third overall in bWAR for Pitchers.  It should also be mentioned that Buffinton was a good hitter who would bat .255 for Boston over his career.  Boston thought that Buffinton was done after a bad 1886 season and they sold him to the Philadelphia Quakers where he rebounded and would go on to win 233 Games.

Ezra Sutton had a long career in professional baseball in which he played 12 of his 18 seasons with the Boston Red Stockings/Beaneaters.  Sutton was a solid player who may not have been extraordinary but he was solid and a for a few seasons and from 1883 to 1886 he would secure 130 or more Hits each year including a 162 Hit year in 1884, which would lead the National League.  Three of those years would see Sutton bat over .300 and he would have an overall collection of 1,161 Hits for the franchise.

Rico Carty may have been popular but he was not necessarily lucky.  While a member of the Atlanta Braves, Carty would miss two complete seasons, 1968 due to tuberculosis and 1971 due to a severe knee injury.  In between that time frame, Carty put forth an incredible 1970 season where he would lead the National League in Batting Average (.366), On Base Percentage (.454) and would have career power highs of 25 Home Runs and 101 Runs Batted In.  Carty was so good that he was voted in as an All Star that year, this despite having to be a write-in candidate, which made him the first to accomplish that!  Carty’s overall numbers as a Brave would see him play 828 Games with a Slash Line of .317/.388/.496.