Trivia with a T205 Prize
 

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?

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.

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

Killebrew

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

Yup.

Mark McGwire

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

Stan Musial?

Babe Ruth is an easy one

714 HRs ----- 506 doubles

Sosa and Ruth
 

Sammy Sosa and Babe Ruth.

I cheated and went to the ESPN Career Stats page.

Ruth was actually a surprise to me.

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

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.

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!

Disqualified
 

I should be disqualified anyway for using ESPN.:)

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!

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

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

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

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

Slammin Sammy Sosa

Surprisingly neither he nor Adam Dunn did it.

Already been guessed.

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

Mark McGwire

Edited - just saw he was already listed

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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.

Rickey Henderson, right behind George Brett in that department

297 HRs vs 510 doubles

guess
 

Frank Howard?

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

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

Barry Bonds

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.

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.

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.

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Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards (Post 1952987) 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..

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!

Mike Piazza
 

Mike Piazza had more career HR than Doubles

Sent a PM

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

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

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

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!