Trivia with a T205 Prize

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Haven't done a give-away in a long time. There will be a prize for EVERY different correct answer in the next 24 hours (limit one answer per person)

I can only think of one Major League player who has 200 more Home Runs than Doubles for his career. Can you name one?

[Jim65]

Dave Kingman?

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Dave Kingman?

That's the one I thought of first. There are more than I thought there would be. I think he's got to be the lowest home run total to do it though.

[scooter729]

Harmon Killebrew - I'm going with big slow sluggers who wouldn't leg out a bunch of doubles

[Mark17]

Killebrew

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Fun follow-up for bragging rights only: What player whose career doubles outpace his career home runs, has the most home runs?

Still accepting answers to the original question for prizes, but it's easier than I was thinking it would be to just look it up. :P

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Harmon Killebrew - I'm going with big slow sluggers who wouldn't leg out a bunch of doubles

Yup.

[Mark17]

Mark McGwire

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Mark McGwire

Only member of the 300+ more Home Runs than Doubles club!

[Jim65]

Fun follow-up for bragging rights only: What player whose career doubles outpace his career home runs, has the most home runs?


Stan Musial?

[nebboy]

Babe Ruth is an easy one

714 HRs ----- 506 doubles

[buymycards]

Sammy Sosa and Babe Ruth.

I cheated and went to the ESPN Career Stats page.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Babe Ruth is an easy one

714 HRs ----- 506 doubles

Ruth was actually a surprise to me.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Sammy Sosa and Babe Ruth.

I cheated and went to the ESPN Career Stats page.

Sosa is good, though you nearly disqualified yourself by guessing two names! Luckily someone had already guessed Ruth!

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Stan Musial?

No, someone had significantly more HR's than Musial and STILL managed to hit more doubles than HR's

[Jim65]

No, someone had significantly more HR's than Musial and STILL managed to hit more doubles than HR's

I'll give someone else a chance to answer. I looked it up and really was not surprised at the correct answer.

[packs]

No, someone had significantly more HR's than Musial and STILL managed to hit more doubles than HR's

Pujols?

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Pujols?

Yup. I'll come up with some sort of prize for this answer too, what the heck. Even if you do think Corey Dickerson is a great player :)

Everyone who was acknowledged as a correct answer please email your contact info to info@birminghamauctioneers.com so I can send your prizes. I also ask that you post a picture of them to the thread when you get them!

[buymycards]

Sosa is good, though you nearly disqualified yourself by guessing two names! Luckily someone had already guessed Ruth!

I should be disqualified anyway for using ESPN.:)

[packs]

Oh come on, Dickerson put up a higher OPS+ in half a season last year than Pujols has in the last 7 years. Give the guy his due!

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

OPS plus is a percentage type statistic that is EASIER to put up a higher number over a lesser amount of plate appearances AND you picked a guy who has been pretty well washed up for the last 8 years to compare CD to lol. But you still get a prize :P

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Oh honorable mention to Mickey Mantle who shockingly only came up a few Home runs short (or a few doubles too many) to qualify!

[howard38]

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[insidethewrapper]

Miguel Cabrera has 100 more 2b's than Hr's ( 577 vs 477 )

[commishbob]

Fun follow-up for bragging rights only: What player whose career doubles outpace his career home runs, has the most home runs?


I would have bet on Yaz...and I'd have lost

[Fred]

Slammin Sammy Sosa

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Jim Thome?

Surprisingly neither he nor Adam Dunn did it.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Slammin Sammy Sosa

Already been guessed.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Miguel Cabrera has 100 more 2b's than Hr's ( 577 vs 477 )

Once you get under 500 Homeruns there are a lot of guys with more doubles than HR's.

[Jcosta19]

Mark McGwire

Edited - just saw he was already listed

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[KCRfan1]

Special shout out for my hometown hero George Brett who is the ONLY HoFR with at least 600 doubles, 100 triples, 300 homers, and 200 stolen bases. 3000+ hits to boot and +.300 lifetime hitter AND never struck out more than 75 times in a season ( career with more walks than strikeouts ). To add, batting titles in 3 different decades.

Far cry from what we see ball players doing today.

[maddux31]

Rickey Henderson, right behind George Brett in that department

297 HRs vs 510 doubles

[NiceDocter]

Frank Howard?

[Ronnie73]

I'm pretty sure that's all of them. What an amazing small group of players that achieved this difficult combination.

[Bpm0014]

It's always tough to do trivia via computer because I just feel like everyone looks up the answers anyway...

[Georj]

Barry Bonds

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

I try and pick things that are harder to look up. This sounded good until I realized you could just go to the all time home run chart and work your way down.

[bnorth]

On the opposite end Mr Ty Cobb had 675 more doubles than HRs. My all time favorite player had 460 more doubles than HRs. Just shows how overrated HRs are.:D

[Mark17]

On the opposite end Mr Ty Cobb had 675 more doubles than HRs. My all time favorite player had 460 more doubles than HRs. Just shows how overrated HRs are.:D

675 is exactly the same differential as his friend Speaker. Spoke also had 105 more triples than homers.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

My apologies to winners, business just kept getting in the way. Cards are coming! If you haven't emailed an address yet please do so!

info@birminghamauctioneers.com

[Mark17]

My apologies to winners, business just kept getting in the way. Cards are coming! If you haven't emailed an address yet please do so!

info@birminghamauctioneers.com

Hi, just wondering if I should still be checking my mail. You don't really owe me anything, just curious.

[chalupacollects]

No, someone had significantly more HR's than Musial and STILL managed to hit more doubles than HR's

Ted Williams had a few more doubles than home runs..

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Thanks for posting Tim, it reminded me how horrible I've been at getting pries out. If you have not received your prize and I acknowledged in the thread that you were a winner. PLEASE message me and remind me!

[JohnP0621]

Mike Piazza had more career HR than Doubles

[nebboy]

Sent a PM

[Mark17]

Admiral Schlei arrived yesterday, and in very nice shape! I have a small collection of T205 and didn't have this one. Thanks Scott!!

[nebboy]

I also received the card prize from your generous contest - Engle with nice eye appeal. Thanks so much.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Thanks for posting so people know I really send the prizes. Sorry it took so long!

[Jim65]

My card arrived yesterday, nice looking Fletcher w/Polar Bear back. Thanks Scott

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

My card arrived yesterday, nice looking Fletcher w/Polar Bear back. Thanks Scott

Perfect. I think that's everyone accounted for! Stay tuned for more contests and auction announcements!