Can you name the Players who held title: 'Most Lifetime HRs among Active Players'?

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Source: Baseball-Reference.com (also Total Baseball, 7th ed.)
Note: The teams listed are solely those the players were on during the period they held the title "Most lifetime HRs among active players."
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Years	Player	Team(s)
1876-1879		Cincinnati / Providence
1880-1881		Boston / Cincinnati
1882		Buffalo Bisons
1883-1884		Cincinnati Red Stockings
1885-1886		Philadelphia Athletics
1887-1888		Detroit Wolverines
1889-1893		Philadelphia Athletics / Boston Beaneaters
1894-1897		St. Louis Browns
1898		Philadelphia Phillies
1899-1903		Philadelphia / Washington
1904-1905		St. Louis Cardinals
1906		Detroit Tigers
1907		St. Louis Cardinals
1908-1911		Boston / Brooklyn
1912-1917		Pittsburgh Pirates
1918-1920		Philadelphia Phillies
1921-1935		NY Yankees
1936-1939		NY Yankees
1940-1945		Boston Red Sox / Chicago Cubs

Years	Player	Team(s)
1946-1947		NY Giants
1948-1951		NY Yankees
1952-1953		NY Yankees
1954-1960		Boston Red Sox
1961-1963		St. Louis Cardinals
1964		NY Yankees
1965-1971		San Francisco Giants
1972-1976		Atlanta Braves / Milwaukee Brewers
1977-1980		San Francisco Giants
1981-1982		Pittsburgh Pirates
1983-1987		California Angels / Oakland Athletics
1988-1989		Philadelphia Phillies
1990		Boston Red Sox
1991-1994		Angels /Blue Jays / Twins
1995-1997		Indians / Orioles / Angels / Dodgers
1998-2001		St. Louis Cardinals
2002-2007		San Francisco Giants
2008-2009		Reds / White Sox / Mariners
2010		NY Yankees

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Active Home Run Leaders Quiz

Rating:	Nominate Report game
Created by: WCRoentgen -
Contributed: October 7th, 2009
Category: Sports
Plays: 769

Tags: title, leader, active, run, held, home, hrs, lifetime, among, team, player

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	brewcrew09:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 22:09 GMT	3 points
	This is a really cool quiz, I love it. Definitely makes you think.

	Kicking222:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 22:11 GMT	3 points
	Very, very, very interesting quiz. Spectacular idea. One suggestion: note that the teams listed are the teams the players were on when they held the lead, not for their entire careers. I missed Mize (disclosure: I almost certainly would've missed him anyway) because I was trying to think of every lifetime Yankee.

	stormriderWI:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 22:57 GMT	3 points
	real tough once you get before Ruth....good quiz

	Etheridge2:	Oct 19th, 2009 at 12:21 GMT	1 point
	real cool quiz

	Corms:	Nov 28th, 2009 at 07:16 GMT	1 point
	Excellent idea. Thanks for the great quiz.

	jsftrey:	Dec 16th, 2009 at 23:56 GMT	-1 points
	just when i thought that all the good quiz ideas were all done - i thought nobody hit HRs before Ruth, at least that what it seems in the media.

	zonecommander:	Jan 20th, 2010 at 16:53 GMT	0 points
	I cant believe Frank "home run" Baker is not on this quiz...great quiz very challenging.

	bigrobd81:	Jan 26th, 2010 at 01:21 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz. Delahanty is the only one I missed that really bothers me... I spelled it DelahantEy. Forgot Brouthers as well. I got everyone from Wagner on. It's a shame no one knows who Cravath is. He held the single season homerun record before Ruth. Pretty good for a guy who wasn't a full time player in the majors until he was in his early 30's.

	barnztormre:	Feb 14th, 2010 at 13:54 GMT	1 point
	Dwight Evans retired as a Baltimore Oriole, not with Boston.

	DJC83:	Feb 16th, 2010 at 22:25 GMT	1 point
	Most clever. I'm going to do a similar one, but for career hits.

	DJC83:	Feb 17th, 2010 at 00:13 GMT	1 point
	Here's the one for career hits: http://www.sporcle.com/games/DJC_83/activehits. Great idea, WCR!

	WCRoentgen:	Feb 18th, 2010 at 23:45 GMT	1 point
	Thanks for everbody's kind comments and ratings

	pita:	Mar 6th, 2010 at 12:35 GMT	3 points
	@barnztormre, Evans played for Boston at the time he was the HR leader. He obviously got passed by the time he joined the Orioles.

	Woodshed:	May 10th, 2010 at 01:09 GMT	0 points
	Great, great quiz. I might suggest you consistently clarify all the early "Boston" and "Philadelphia" teams with which team you mean. Could also use a year update on Griffey -- zero homers and counting in 2010!

	barnztormre:	Jun 21st, 2010 at 01:37 GMT	-1 points
	@pita: I stand corrected. BTW, now that Griffy has retired the quiz needs updating. :)

	johnlk:	Jul 1st, 2010 at 20:26 GMT	0 points
	@jsftrey - nobody did hit very many home runs before Ruth. "Home Run" Baker hit 96 home runs in his career. Gavvy Cravath became active home run leader in 1918 with 98 career home runs to that point. Honus Wagner had 101 career home runs. It might have had something to do with the size and shape of parks before the 1920s, but home runs were just really, really rare before Ruth.

	WCRoentgen:	Jan 9th, 2011 at 15:51 GMT	1 point
	@Kicking222: I added a note that should clarify your point. @barnztormre: I updated the quiz through 2010.