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Can you name the members of the 500 Home Run Club? Enter a player in the box below Correctly named players will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order * Home Run totals as of April 17th, 2009 You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 695 TV Shows (U.S.) 649 Broadway Opening Lines 490 You Do Know Jack 277 Same Last Name 245 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 235 And more...
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Achieved	Player	# Home Runs*
1929		714
1940		534
1945		511
1960		521
1965		660
1967		536
1967		512
1968		755
1970		512
1971		586
1971		573
1978		521
1984		563

Achieved	Player	# Home Runs*
1987		548
1996		504
1999		583
2001		762
2003		609
2003		569
2004		618
2007		562
2007		521
2007		553
2008		533
2009		507

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	adam:	Nov 1st, 2008 at 01:25 GMT	-2 points
	Darn, I almost had them in the correct order but I couldn't remember if Thome did it before Thomas

	Biggtone23:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 10:38 GMT	6 points
	Could probably use an update for full 2008 stats

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	Loppy:	Jan 12th, 2009 at 00:10 GMT	-4 points
	People who used steroids should not make the hall of fame, its just not fair and right for everybody else who work hard and dont use steroids

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	drhaase:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 20:03 GMT	8 points
	don't say Thome. his name has never been linked to anything steroids related unlike the other names you stated

	schoopdawoop:	Jan 20th, 2009 at 03:33 GMT	3 points
	ya, dont get thome involved. he's clean.

Can you name the members of the 500 Home Run Club? Enter a player in the box below Correctly named players will show up in the table below Answers do not have to be guessed in order * Home Run totals as of April 17th, 2009 You have 5 minutes to guess after you click the button below.	Search: Popular trivia games today 4 Letter Capitals 695 TV Shows (U.S.) 649 Broadway Opening Lines 490 You Do Know Jack 277 Same Last Name 245 Lousy descriptions of Tom Hanks movies 235 And more...
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	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Jan 24th, 2009 at 20:22 GMT	6 points
	Look at that steroid explosion in the late '60s. Seven guys made it in a few years, when only four had done it before? Obviously Aaron, Mays, Robinson et al should not be in the HOF.

	Etheridge2:	Jan 31st, 2009 at 07:15 GMT	4 points
	TY Nuclear knuckles I mention that all the time when people talk about the explosion of the 500 HR club of late and notice after only 3 guys hit 500 HR through 1959 from 1960-1971 8 guys did it. and then from 1972-1998 only 4 more joined...of course from 1999-present we have seen 9 new members, but still i prefer to enjoy and not judge

	Lenard:	Feb 4th, 2009 at 21:39 GMT	-1 points
	Of course Thome is clean. He hit 30 home runs like his first year in the league and with all this speculation continues to hit 40.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Feb 5th, 2009 at 09:42 GMT	1 point
	Manny Alexander and Alex Sanchez must be clean too then. They combined for fewer than 30 HR in their entire careers.

	dwaters:	Feb 22nd, 2009 at 07:12 GMT	-3 points
	How was I supposed to know that killebrew has two "L"s?

	tlenk:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 09:28 GMT	0 points
	matthews got me, damn!!!!

	dposseman:	Mar 6th, 2009 at 23:57 GMT	0 points
	IMO even players on steroids should make the HOF, same with Pete Rose and his gambling. Cheating has always been a part of baseball, from over "tarred" bats, to long and sharpened spikes to pitchers putting everything from spit to vasoline on the ball to get more curve. Steroid should be illegal today, but players who used and didn't get caught should be HOF's, as I'm sure many HOF's cheated in other ways to make a name for themselves.

	dposseman:	Mar 6th, 2009 at 23:58 GMT	1 point
	On that note too, I wish there was a quiz for "Baseball Players caught using steroids"

	D-Dog:	Mar 8th, 2009 at 07:39 GMT	-4 points
	to nuclear knuckles: those guys are some of the best in history. Don't say stuff you don't know

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 09:32 GMT	0 points
	Tell me, D-Dog, what is it I don't know? A huge group of players suddenly reached 500 home runs in the '60s/'70s when hardly anyone had done so before. So do groups of players hit lots of HR because of steroids, or might there possibly be other environmental factors to consider?

	schoopdawoop:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 20:45 GMT	0 points
	poor ol' gary sheffield sits on 499 and is without a team. :(

	schoopdawoop:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 20:46 GMT	2 points
	Patrick, there is a quiz on the mitchell report

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	esqdmd:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 20:10 GMT	5 points
	Don Sutton and Gaylord Perry (just to name two) don't even DENY that they cheated by doctoring the baseballs, and they are both in the Hall. But we keep McGwire out? And likely Palmeiro, Bonds, etc... Just another example of selective judgment by the genius writers who get to vote.

	Antithesys:	Apr 18th, 2009 at 06:34 GMT	7 points
	Gary Sheffield has just made this list, and perhaps the totals could be updated too after nearly a year.

	sox_fan1468927:	Apr 20th, 2009 at 05:26 GMT	-1 points
	esqdmd: McGwire isn't just kept out because he took steroids, his career numbers are just not that great. He never even got to 2,000 hits and batted .263 for his career.

	let.it.go:	May 23rd, 2009 at 20:46 GMT	-4 points
	ditto @pbrown. where is the asterisk and wtf are you guys negative banging him for it? grow a sense of humor!

	Nitram_Odarp:	May 26th, 2009 at 04:03 GMT	2 points
	Dang Mel Ott! Totally blanked on that one and felt like an idiot when time ran out and it popped up.

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	Jonathan Hobbs:	Jul 3rd, 2009 at 07:07 GMT	5 points
	@Lester_Diamond. Racist jerk

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	kevmurph55:	Jul 18th, 2009 at 17:19 GMT	0 points
	lester_diamond: r u a sox fan? anyway, ur lucky i dont report u

	deej:	Jul 24th, 2009 at 21:35 GMT	4 points
	poor Eddie Mathews. He has to be by far the most forgotten 500 home run hitter.

	bentley:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 05:36 GMT	2 points
	Argh, I somehow forgot Frank Thomas. Also missed Matthews.

	omnipotent1:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 06:38 GMT	2 points
	Oddly enough, I got 17, but of the 8 I missed, the last six on the list were amongst them. I can distinctly remember hearing about all them hitting their 500th HR but just couldn't think of them for some reason.

	switzr1:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 12:17 GMT	1 point
	I used a performance enhancing drug (caffeine) to help me finish this quiz. I guess I don't belong in the sporcle hall of fame.

	Eagle3:	Sep 13th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT	1 point
	@TannerNation, You mention those players in the steroid explosion, but you somehow left out Barry Bonds?

	WCRoentgen:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 01:33 GMT	1 point
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	WCRoentgen:	Oct 8th, 2009 at 01:33 GMT	1 point
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	laterally:	Oct 16th, 2009 at 02:12 GMT	1 point
	This quiz won't need nearly as many updates in the coming years as in the last few. I see only 2 names on the horizon - Delgado will probably reach 500 next season, then Pujols in maybe 3+ years. Then who? Adam Dunn? Will 500 HR hitters eventually go the way of 300 game winners, i.e. extinction?