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Originally Posted by rats60
Ken Williams was the first 30/30 player.
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Correct!
Ken Williams was the first in 1922 with 39 HRs and 37 SBs
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Originally Posted by Casey2296
Mays and Aaron have to be on that list.
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It would be another 34 years until someone else went 30/30 after Ken Williams.
In 1956,
Willie Mays had 36 HRs and 40 steals and in the following year he had 35 HRs and 38 steals.
6 years later,
Hank Aaron had 44 HRs and 31 steals.
Well done.
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Originally Posted by jayshum
Bobby Bonds
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6 years after Aaron,
Bobby Bonds became the 4th player to go 30/30 when he recorded 32 HRs and 45 steals. Bobby Bonds would go on to record the feat 4 more times ('73, '75, '77, '78) becoming the first to do it 5 times. His son Barry would match him in 1997 as the only other player to do it 5 times.
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Originally Posted by bk400
Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb (the reason for my guess is that I just recently read on MLB.com that if Ohtani finishes in the top two in the league in both HRs and SBs, he would be the first to do that since Wagner and Cobb).
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Wagner and Cobb certainly had enough steals, but Wagner topped out at 10 HRs and Cobb at 12.
So we still need the 5th and 6th different players to achieve a 30/30 season.