Texas Baseball: 5 best Longhorns of all-time in the MLB

3. Pinky Higgins, 3B

Career: 1930-1946, 3 ASG, 26.0 WAR, 1 WS (4.55 points)

The Red Oak, TX, native and three-time MLB All-Star Pinky Higgins is one of the best batters among former Longhorns to ever play in the league. Higgins played baseball and football at Texas, winning at least one Southwest Conference Championship with each team. He was also the captain of the Longhorns baseball team in 1930.

After a successful playing career in baseball and football on the Forty Acres, which garnered him a Texas Hall of Honor induction in 1961, Higgins began playing in the MLB for the Philadelphia Athletics during the 1930 season.

Higgins had fewer than 30 at-bats, though, during the 1930 season before he took a hiatus from baseball for most of the early 1930s. Although, Higgins does technically get credit for a World Series ring with the Athletics from the 1930 season.

He returned to the MLB with the Athletics for the 1933 season, where his bat came alive for Philly. Higgins hit .314 with a whopping 99 runs batted in, which nearly garnered him his first career All-Star selection.

Yet, Higgins followed up his breakout 1933 campaign with an even better run for the Athletics in 1934, which then got him that elusive first-career All-Star Game appearance. That would be the first of three All-Star Game appearances for Higgins during his accomplished MLB career.