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7 minutes ago, rico said:

Who was the first AL player to record 3,000 hits and 400 HR's?

Ruth, Gehrig, and Williams didn't have the 3,000 hits (although Williams definitely would have if not for 2 wars) and of course guys like Cobb and Speaker didn't have the HRs...

So my first swipe would be Yaz...

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2 minutes ago, IUFLA said:

Ruth, Gehrig, and Williams didn't have the 3,000 hits (although Williams definitely would have if not for 2 wars) and of course guys like Cobb and Speaker didn't have the HRs...

So my first swipe would be Yaz...

Yo da man!  It is indeed Yaz.

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14 minutes ago, rico said:

Yo da man!  It is indeed Yaz.

Back when I really followed baseball closely and knew every stat there wasn't a whole helluva lot of guys that had the 400 HRs... 

The steroid era made it a little harder to pare down the field on questions like that...Thome and Griffey Jr not withstanding...

Those 2 got cheated as in that whole mess as well...

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1 minute ago, IUFLA said:

All my Red fan friends hated him because of the 1970 WS...

That's probably first time I heard of him was listening to that series on a record.  My Dad had lots of the playoffs on vinyl and I remember how great he was according to the announcers. Dont remember 1st time seeing him play . 

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21 minutes ago, rico said:

Here is an odd one.

There are 2 guys in MLB history that have had 3 40+ HR seasons but yet never hit between 30-39 HR's in a season.  Both have won HR titles and both played 15+years in the league.  Name the 2.

Kiner and Schmidt?

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1 hour ago, rico said:

Here is an odd one.

There are 2 guys in MLB history that have had 3 40+ HR seasons but yet never hit between 30-39 HR's in a season.  Both have won HR titles and both played 15+years in the league.  Name the 2.

So it has to be a feast or famine type guy to hit that many dongs 3x but never 30-39..... I would say flash in the pan type as well but 15+ years eliminates that. I'll go with George Foster and Adam Dunn. I'll keep it in your wheelhouse. I've got a couple other guesses which I'll regret not saying first.

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28 minutes ago, Seeking6 said:

So it has to be a feast or famine type guy to hit that many dongs 3x but never 30-39..... I would say flash in the pan type as well but 15+ years eliminates that. I'll go with George Foster and Adam Dunn. I'll keep it in your wheelhouse. I've got a couple other guesses which I'll regret not saying first.

No and no...both guys are HoFer's.

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