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Posted By: identify7

It is great when you finally get everything to come together after trying and failing for soo long. The NY Giants did it in 1954 and a few years earlier Pat Seerey did it.

Pat Seerey was a player in the fourties who every time he came up to bat he wanted a home run. Well he got as many as 26 in a year, but he typically also had a strikeout ratio of greater than 25% and a BA in the low .200s (he also had three stolen bases in seven seasons.

Well on July 18, 1948 Pat joined the elite circle of players, including Gehrig, Hodges, Delahanty, Klein, Adcock, Mays et. al., who hit four homeruns in a game (11 innings - but it still counts).