MLB 500 Home Run Club Quiz

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MLB 500 Home Run Club Quiz

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Created Jun 6, 2008 in Sports
Featured Jun 6, 2008
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	Biggtone23:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 06:38 GMT	9 points
	Could probably use an update for full 2008 stats

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	drhaase:	Jan 15th, 2009 at 16:03 GMT	46 points
	don't say Thome. his name has never been linked to anything steroids related unlike the other names you stated

	schoopdawoop:	Jan 19th, 2009 at 23:33 GMT	27 points
	ya, dont get thome involved. he's clean.

	TallKool1:	Jan 23rd, 2009 at 08:52 GMT	20 points
	I suggest all of you take this to a message board somewhere. This quiz is to educate, not to judge.

	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Jan 24th, 2009 at 16:22 GMT	4 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 03:15 GMT	12 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 17:39 GMT	5 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 05:42 GMT	-2 points
	Manny Alexander and Alex Sanchez must be clean too then. They combined for fewer than 30 HR in their entire careers.

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	tlenk:	Feb 26th, 2009 at 05:28 GMT	2 points
	matthews got me, damn!!!!

	dposseman:	Mar 6th, 2009 at 19:57 GMT	13 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 19:58 GMT	6 points
	On that note too, I wish there was a quiz for "Baseball Players caught using steroids"

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	Nuclear_Knuckles:	Apr 1st, 2009 at 05:32 GMT	2 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 16:45 GMT	-1 points
	poor ol' gary sheffield sits on 499 and is without a team. :(

	schoopdawoop:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 16:46 GMT	4 points
	Patrick, there is a quiz on the mitchell report

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	esqdmd:	Apr 15th, 2009 at 16:10 GMT	16 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 02:34 GMT	12 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 01:26 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.

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	Nitram_Odarp:	May 26th, 2009 at 00:03 GMT	0 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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	Phillyfan17:	Jul 3rd, 2009 at 03:07 GMT	7 points
	@Lester_Diamond. Racist jerk

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	deej:	Jul 24th, 2009 at 17:35 GMT	10 points
	poor Eddie Mathews. He has to be by far the most forgotten 500 home run hitter.

	bentley:	Aug 13th, 2009 at 01:36 GMT	1 point
	Argh, I somehow forgot Frank Thomas. Also missed Matthews.

	omnipotent1:	Aug 21st, 2009 at 02:38 GMT	0 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 08:17 GMT	8 points
	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 16:08 GMT	-1 points
	@TannerNation, You mention those players in the steroid explosion, but you somehow left out Barry Bonds?

	WCRoentgen:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 21:33 GMT	-3 points
	I have two new Home Run related Quizzes that are definitely not for the faint-of-heart. Please check them out at: and . Let me know what you think.

	WCRoentgen:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 21:33 GMT	0 points
	Sorry. Forgot links can't be added to comments. Please check them out by clicking on my screen name!

	laterally:	Oct 15th, 2009 at 22:12 GMT	-2 points
	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?

	BiloxiSean:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 03:24 GMT	4 points
	maybe chipper will make the list

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