Torre would have a strong start in baseball, finishing second in the 1961 National League Rookie of the Year voting. In 1963, he was named to the National League All-Star Team, a feat he repeated for the next five seasons. Torre would show off power with four straight 20 Home Run seasons (1964 to 1967) with a solid Batting Average, though he would later be traded to the St. Louis Cardinals.
He was named the National League MVP in 1971 and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a Manager in 2014. While he had greater success elsewhere, Torre’s work with the Braves can’t be forgotten.
Hugh Duffy was somewhat of a maverick in early baseball as he bounced from the National League to the Federal League to the American Association and back to the National League in a four year span. It was the latter that would see him join the Boston Beaneaters, the precursor to the Atlanta Braves.