Trivia day

[BeanTown]

Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Stan Musial and Mel Ott and ________ are the only players to compile a .300 batting average, .400 on-base percentage, .500 slugging percentage, at least 450 home runs and at least 2,700 hits over a career.

[Baseball Bob]

Chipper Jones.

[Bliggity]

Miguel Cabrera will also have all the compilation stats after next season. If he can bring his career OBP up by .005, he'll be in the club also.

[Bpm0014]

A noble effort, but trivia via the computer is (for lack of a better term) dumb. People will simply look it up rather than rely on their brain.

[h2oya311]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Stan Musial and Mel Ott and ________ are the only players to compile a .300 batting average, .400 on-base percentage, .500 slugging percentage, at least 450 home runs and at least 2,700 hits over a career.

without using the internet, I would have guessed the Big Hurt - Frank Thomas. But, alas, and upon further review, he missed on the hits component of the question (w/ 2,468).

[JollyElm]

I'm thinking The Say Hey Kid. Without looking anything up, most of those numbers fit his stats.

[barrysloate]

Albert Pujols?

[BeanTown]

Baseball Bob got it right. Chipper Jones. HOF ballots released earlier today. Very few players have a single season of .300-.400-.500 and he did it for his career. Plus, he played for one the same organization during his career which is almost as rare in this day and age.

[angolajones]

Eddie Murray?

[rats60]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Stan Musial and Mel Ott and ________ are the only players to compile a .300 batting average, .400 on-base percentage, .500 slugging percentage, at least 450 home runs and at least 2,700 hits over a career.

And 2900 hits and it is only Musial. 520 Hrs and it is only Ruth. I am not sure the point, but Chipper is a Hofer. He is not in the same class as Ruth, Gehrig or Musial.

[MVSNYC]

Even before scrolling down to see anyone's answers, I said Chipper Jones to myself. I remember reading an SI article on him years ago which sited those statistics. Guy was very consistent.

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by BeanTown

Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Stan Musial and Mel Ott and ________ are the only players to compile a .300 batting average, .400 on-base percentage, .500 slugging percentage, at least 450 home runs and at least 2,700 hits over a career.

TED WILLIAMS is the man.

Check-out his numbers......

BA = .344

Hits = 2654

HR = 521

OBP = .482

SLG = .634


Of course, his honorable WWII (1943-45) and Korean War (1952-53) Military Service as a Naval Aviator
keeps him from qualifying for this quiz (only 46 Hits short of the criteria).

Suggestion: Change the Hits number to 2600.....we cannot leave "Teddy Ballgame" out of this answer.







By the way, I'm a long-time Yankees fan (1947 > now). Anyway, I was lucky to see Ted play when I was young.
Ted was tremendous. In 1957 (at age 39), Ted was flirting with another .400 year. Finished with a .388 BA.


TED Z

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