OT: Baseball Trivia

[colbert17]

The other night Juan Soto hit homer #20 for the season. He became only the 12th player in history to have 5 +20 hr years through his age 24 season. So we're looking for players who hit a lot of homers at a young age. How many of the other 11 can you name?
Clue: Ten of the eleven are modern players (played post 1960) and three are currently active.

 

[Plum Street]

I got no idea but he are 10 guesses :

Trout
Harper
Machado
Griffey Jr.
Mantle
Barry Bonds
Miguel Cabrera
Vladimir Guerrero sr
Babe Ruth
Pujols

 

[colbert17]

Trout, Harper, Griffey and Mantle are all correct

 

[zappaa]

Kaline

 

[colbert17]

Kaline

I thought he would be one but he’s not. Incorrect

 

[RU Diesel07110]

Kingman
Arod

 

[zappaa]

Interesting question because you could have hit more home-runs by age 24, but not 20 or more in consecutive seasons

 

[colbert17]

Kingman
Arod

ARod - yes, Kingman - no

 

[colbert17]

Still missing an active player

 

[RU Diesel07110]

Aaron
Killebrew
Canseco
McGuire

 

[colbert17]

Aaron
Killebrew
Canseco
McGuire

All are incorrect

 

[RU Diesel07110]

All are incorrect

Wow time to play mega😳

 

[RU Diesel07110]

Boog
Howard
Thomas

 

[colbert17]

I’ll be away for about an hour but keep guessing

 

[colbert17]

Boog
Howard
Thomas

Once again, all are incorrect

 

[WhiteBus]

Stanton. And I'd still trade him for a bag of baseballs... used.
And 2 guesses at the old timer.
Jimmie Fox or Mel Ott. I think both started playing pro baseball at 17 and both hit a lot of homers in their day

 

[colbert17]

Stanton and Ott are correct.
Foxx is incorrect.

Four more to go

 

[wisr01]

BTW Ted Williams would have made the list except he was fighting in WWII at age 24 which would have been his 5th year in a row.

 

[wisr01]

Eddie Mathews? I think he has MLB record for most HRs before age 25

 

[colbert17]

Clues: Of the remain players left these are the teams they played for when they set this record:

Giants - one of these years he led the NL in HRs with 46
Braves - three of his first four years he hit over 40 homers
Reds
Red Sox

Eddie Mathews? I think he has MLB record for most HRs before age 25

Mathews is correct. 3 of his first four years he hit over 40 homers

 

[wisr01]

Reds? Is it Frank Robinson? Hint sure helped

 

[colbert17]

Clues: Of the remain players left these are the teams they played for when they set this record:

Giants - one of these years he led the NL in HRs with 46 at age 23.
Red Sox - one of these years he led the AL with 32 homers at age 20.

 

[zappaa]

BTW Ted Williams would have made the list except he was fighting in WWII at age 24 which would have been his 5th year in a row.

What a tremendous topic.
Joe D
Greenberg
Feller
Spahn
Williams
Reece
Rizzuto
Just to name a mere few.
3 years in the prime of their careers serving the country and defending it from tyranny

 

[colbert17]

Reds? Is it Frank Robinson? Hint sure helped

Robby is correct

 

[wisr01]

Robby is correct

Your hint kind of gave it away

 

[retired711]

Hasn't anyone mentioned Willie Mays yet?

 

[colbert17]

Hasn't anyone mentioned Willie Mays yet?

No they haven't. And that's a good thing because it would be incorrect. :) :) :)

 

[wisr01]

Your hint for Giants also gave it away once I pondered what old time Giants started young and also led MLB in HRs

Initals OC right?

 

[colbert17]

The Giant is an overlooked player IMHO because of the all time greats that he played with.
The Red Sox missed an entire season due to injury during this streak.

 

[colbert17]

Your hint for Giants also gave it away once I pondered what old time Giants started young and also led MLB in HRs

Initals OC right?

That would be correct sir!!!!

 

[wisr01]

The Giant is an overlooked player IMHO because of the all time greats that he played with.
The Red Sox missed an entire season due to injury during this streak.

If it wasn't for your hint I would have overlooked for the very reason you suggest.

 

[wisr01]

I called my brother, a life long Red Sox fan and described your hint and he gave me the answer immediately. Yes I cheated but would have never guessed him

won't say his name so others can guess

 

[RUBubba]

First one that came to mind for me was Andruw Jones.,, but he "only" hit 18 homers when he was 20.

 

[colbert17]

One more clue on the Red Sox. His name will be forever linked with another player by the name of Jack Hamilton.
For not good reasons.
By the way the Giant who did it which at @wisr01 gave his initials as OC was Orlando Cepeda.

 

[wisr01]

One more clue on the Red Sox. His name will be forever linked with another player by the name of Jack Hamilton.
For not good reasons.
By the way the Giant who did it which at @wisr01 gave his initials as OC was Orlando Cepeda.

Sad story

 

[zappaa]

Tony C

 

[colbert17]

Tony C

You are correct sir. For people who don"t know Tony C. was Tony Conigliaro who was a Red Sox phenom in the mid 60s who looked like he was headed to superstardom when he was hit in the face by a pitch by Jack Hamilton which made him miss the entirety of the 1968 season. He made a comeback and did hit 36 homers with 116 RBIs before lingering vision problems forced his retirement.

 

[ScarletNut]

You are correct sir. For people who don"t know Tony C. was Tony Conigliaro who was a Red Sox phenom in the mid 60s who looked like he was headed to superstardom when he was hit in the face by a pitch by Jack Hamilton which made him miss the entirety of the 1968 season. He made a comeback and did hit 36 homers with 116 RBIs before lingering vision problems forced his retirement.

I believe at the time Tony C was the youngest player to hit 100 HR's.

 

[Shelby65]

Padres great Kurt Bevacqua ?

 

[WhiteBus]

Eddie Mathews? I think he has MLB record for most HRs before age 25

Eddie Mathews is maybe the most underrated baseball player ever. Of course he was a teammate of Hank Aaron who stole a lot of attention for good reasons.