All-Star shortstops Omar Vizquel and Ozzie Guillen credit Davey Concepcion as a guiding light in their esteemed baseball careers, Concepcion proves himself quite the teacher after all. It's up to Hall of Fame voters, once again, to decide whether those lessons Concepcion taught have earned him a spot in Cooperstown's Baseball Hall of Fame 2006.

Concepcion's career batting statistics (.267 average, 101 home runs, 950 RBIs in 19 seasons) stack up quite well against Smith's (.262, 28 homers, 793 RBIs in 19 seasons), and his career fielding percentage of .972 is also right up there with Smith's .978 mark.

One can forgive Concepcion, now 57, if he gets a little lost in the shuffle. He was, after all, a member of the "Great Eight" starting lineup on the Big Red Machine -- one of the most star-studded lineups in baseball history.

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