Can you name the players with more HR than strikeouts in a season? by rk559

Can you name the players with more HR than strikeouts in a season?

created by rk559

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Impressive feat! Players in this quiz had to strikeout less often than homer, while hitting at least 37 HR. Here's a klue: underrated Reds slugger...
Bonus answers include notable players with more HR than K but less than 37 HR. Bonus answers are not comprehensive, even for the individual player.
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HR > K	Player	Year
51 > 42		1947
49 > 31		1934
49 > 46		1936
49 > 35		1954
47 > 40		1955
46 > 37		1937
45 > 41		2004

HR > K	Player	Year
42 > 38		1929
40 > 34		1953
40 > 37		1948
39 > 30		1948
39 > 34		1948
39 > 31		1922
37 > 27		1941
39 = 39 (1925)	1941
30 > 24 (1952)	1941
11 > 3 (1932)	1941
17 > 15 (1923)	1941
18 > 9 (1948)	1941
20 > 19 (1939)	1941
4 > 2 (1926)	1941
16 < 18 (1998)	1941
46 < 51 (1931)	1941
49 < 50 (2006)	1941
31 < 35 (1986)	1941

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Most Home Runs, HR > Strikeouts Quiz

by rk559

Created Oct 6, 2010 in Sports
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	rk559:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 04:15 GMT	2 points
	Player with most HR and under 50 strikeouts in 2010? Kurt Suzuki (13 HR, 49 K)

	Novrand:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 04:29 GMT	8 points
	Loved it! Nice idea. A wonderful quiz.

	Frosty:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 04:57 GMT	5 points
	Pujols hit 49 homers and struck out 50 times in 2006, not 2005.

	sinatra22:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 05:08 GMT	4 points
	Great quiz, but way too much time. I got them all with 8:13 remaining. 3 or 4 minutes should be more than enough.

	rk559:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 13:04 GMT	2 points
	Thanks, you're right about the time and I changed the year.

	trivial:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 16:27 GMT	4 points
	One of the bonus answers is Yogi Berra. He hit 30 HR and struck out only 24 times in 1952. In 1950 he hit 28 homers and struck out 12 times in 151 games!

	RC_Cola:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 17:14 GMT	-1 points
	Great idea. Where's Dave Kingman? Can his best HR/K ratio be a bonus answer? I'd count his 1979 season with a ratio of .366 (that's MVP material if it was a batting average) but not the following year when he played only 81 games with a ratio of .409

	SkippySuperfly:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 18:51 GMT	4 points
	My favorite piece of Baseball Trivia: Out of the five players in history that have hit 40 or more home runs in a season and struck out 40 or fewer times, only Ted Kluszewski did it more than once, and he did it three times.

	ef232623:	Oct 7th, 2010 at 21:00 GMT	1 point
	This was a fun quiz, but I have to say that I'm at a loss for the arbitrariness of 37 as the requisite number of home runs to be considered a correct answer. While I appreciate the inclusion of Joe Sewell as a bonus, I think it's almost criminal to not have him count in a quiz about one's productiveness compared to their total number of strike outs. If you're concerned about guys who only played a couple of games, maybe you could have a requisite number of AB's? Again, great quiz and research, but I would highly recommend that change be made at least to a good even number.

	emsee:	Oct 11th, 2010 at 13:09 GMT	5 points
	I knew going in that I could eliminate Adam Dunn and Mark Reynolds ;)

	mraithel13:	Oct 12th, 2010 at 20:26 GMT	3 points
	Big Klu was a stud.

	devilsfan15:	Jul 24th, 2011 at 03:27 GMT	1 point
	I was surprised about Klu - I had no idea the big man struck out so infrequently. The sad part is I thought of him and did not bother trying his name!

	Cards1fan:	Jul 24th, 2011 at 15:45 GMT	1 point
	Kluszewski hit more home runs than times struck out three different seasons? Wow! That's impressive! Too bad today's power hitters don't care about strikeouts. Just put the ball in play, something good may happen.