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Old 09-03-2023, 07:39 PM
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The last 18 year old to hit a home run in the major leagues.
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I don't know the most recent but Ty Cobb and Mel Ott both hit home runs at age 18.
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I don't know the most recent but Ty Cobb and Mel Ott both hit home runs at age 18.
so did Yount but that was a hell of a long time ago. Did Harper or was he 19 when he came up?
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Andruw Jones was even younger than that, wasn't he?
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Yount is the answer
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After a quick Google search, looks like there was a dozen or so players who have hit homers in MLB at the age of 18...but only one at the age of 17. Who is it?
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He is still alive.
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I believe he is also the only player alive to have played in an American League or National League game during WW II

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He's the "youngest" and the "second youngest" to homer in MLB.

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Is it a Japanese player?
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This makes me think of the character "the oldest living Chicago Cub" in the book version of Field of Dreams. The answer did in fact play there briefly.
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Not Japanese. Did play during WWII.
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Not Japanese. Did play during WWII.
I looked it up. I was sort of in the ballpark with the Japanese question.
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In full disclosure, it's not an answer I previously knew...I stumbled across it after your initial question. (I'll post the answer for other people later tonight).

Maybe we can use this thread as a running Trivia section?
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I looked it up. I was sort of in the ballpark with the Japanese question.
I am not following that, if I'm right about who this is.
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The guy did it as a Brooklyn Dodger
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OK...I'm not looking anything up here, but with these cluea, how about Tommy Brown?
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Correct! Tommy Brown.

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Who is the only player alive to have played in an American League game prior to 1950?

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Bobby Shantz?
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Bobby Shantz is correct...in his 1st season at age 23 he pitched for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics in 1949...he will be 98 in 3 weeks.

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I think there are only 4 living players that played in an American League or National League game prior to 1950...Tommy Brown and Bobby Shantz have already been named...since Shantz is the only American Leaguer the remaining 2 are obviously National Leaguers...one of them had a nice career and was a popular player on an idolized team...the other player only had a cup of coffee prior to 1950 but did play a few more games several years later in the 50's...name these 2 players.

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Bobby Shantz is correct...in his 1st season at age 23 he pitched for Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics in 1949...he will be 98 in 3 weeks.

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