I’m old enough to remember Ozzie Smith when he broke in with the Padres. I was a teen-ager and would see highlights of Ozzie’s defensive gems on This Week in Baseball, and then on ESPN after it launched. Ozzie would move on to St. Louis, where he would win the last 12 of his 13 Gold Gloves and cement his status as one of the two greatest defensive shortstops of at least the latter half of the 20th century, if not all time.
The other was Omar Vizquel, with apologies to Luis Aparicio, whom I’ve only seen on video.