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Posted By: Al Crisafulli

Interesting concept. Had some time to kill at lunch, so I just looked at everyone in the 500 HR club. Only one had more than half of his hits for extra bases - McGwire.

Bonds came very close, with 49.2% of his hits for extra bases.

Notably, only 39.2% of Hank Aaron's hits were for extra bases. Others under 40% - Rafael Palmeiro, Mickey Mantle, Ernie Banks, Mel Ott, and Eddie Murray.

So I'm not sure this is really indicative of anything. Just for comparison purposes, here are some players who (with a minimum of 1000 hits) had a higher percentage of extra base hits than Mel Ott:

Dave Kingman
Cliff Johnson
Gene Tenace
Gorman Thomas
Greg Luzinski

Actually, Kingman and Thomas ranked higher than Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Frank Robinson, Sammy Sosa, Harmon Killebrew, Reggie Jackson, Mickey Mantle, Jimmie Foxx, Willie McCovey, Ted Williams, Ernie Banks, Eddie Mathews, Mel Ott, Eddie Murray, and Ken Griffey - big-time sluggers all.

Interesting factoid - Mark McGwire's career triples total: 6.

-Al