First player to hit 40 HR or more for each MLB team Quiz

Team	Player	Year
Yankees ^		1920
Cardinals ^		1922
Phillies		1923
Giants (NY) ^		1929
Cubs ^		1930
Athletics (Phi) ^		1932
Red Sox ^		1936
Indians		1936
Tigers ^		1937
Pirates ^		1947
Dodgers (Bro)		1951
Braves (Mil) ^		1953
Reds		1953
Senators		1957
Giants (SF) ^		1961
Orioles		1961
Twins ^		1961
Braves (Atl) ^		1966

Team	Player	Year
Senators		1968
Athletics (Oak) ^		1969
Brewers		1979
Blue Jays		1986
Rangers		1992
Mariners		1993
White Sox		1993
Rockies		1995
Marlins		1996
Mets		1996
Padres		1996
Astros		1997
Dodgers (LA)		1997
Expos *		1999
Angels *		2000
Diamondbacks		2001
Nationals *		2006
Rays *		2007

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MLB First 40 HR Player by Team Quiz

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Created Aug 30, 2010 in Sports
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	Nightingale:	May 10th, 2011 at 19:55 GMT		7 points
	Thanks for allowing Klu for kluzewski-I still can't spell it correctly! Very interesting that it took some teams quite some time to have a player reach that number. I learned a lot. Thanks.

	rct:	May 10th, 2011 at 19:55 GMT		8 points
	Whoops, nevermind! I read over that thing three times and didn't see it. Anyway, hopefully Eric Hosmer can give the Royals hope to make this list.

	mraithel13:	May 10th, 2011 at 20:30 GMT		11 points
	Jimmie Foxx - man, that guy was a Beast.

	awix:	May 10th, 2011 at 20:43 GMT		19 points
	Of course I meant Gorman Thomas...

	yankeespurs101:	May 10th, 2011 at 21:05 GMT		0 points
	Man Babe Ruth took away the long list of Yankee sluggers I had

	wildpitch_20:	May 10th, 2011 at 21:23 GMT		9 points
	I'm sure no one got Cy Williams on accident.

	radiosilence:	May 10th, 2011 at 21:50 GMT		3 points
	Yep, poor Royals... Steve Balboni still holds the franchise record of 36 home runs in a season. Steve Balboni. Gary Gaetti had 35 one year, I believe. Bo Jackson and Dean Palmer (!) are tied for third with 34.

	asdffdsaasdffdsa:	May 10th, 2011 at 21:56 GMT		3 points
	Freaking Todd Hundley? Really? I happen to remember him hitting below .215 three years in a row back in the early 2000s when he was playing for the Cubs. Where the heck was that production?

	barnztormre:	May 10th, 2011 at 23:18 GMT		5 points
	Shocked that Orlando Cepeda got to the mark before Willie Mays did.

	schrempf11:	May 10th, 2011 at 23:32 GMT		8 points
	The caption references how long it took the Mets to make the list. But what about the White Sox? Can't believe it took them until the 90's.

	yentlplex:	May 11th, 2011 at 00:23 GMT		2 points
	I tried Moseby and Bell for the Jays, forgot about Barfield...

	WCRoentgen:	May 11th, 2011 at 00:53 GMT		4 points
	Honest now: How many would be able to answer the question: "Who was the first non-Yankee to hit 40 HRs in a season?" I'm guessing a lot of people wouldn't immediately think of Hornsby. What a great all around hitter! He's on that very short list of "who hit over 300 HRs and batted over .400 three times in a career."

	iFOOL14:	May 11th, 2011 at 01:04 GMT		0 points
	whoa. i completely forgot about Luis Gonzalez, let alone the fact that he hit 57 goddamn dingers in 2001.

	Valley:	May 11th, 2011 at 02:22 GMT		1 point
	Good idea. I feel good about getting Roy Sievers (power hitter, bad team) and Jim Gentile (one big year in the biggest HR year, 1961).

	ClintT13:	May 11th, 2011 at 02:22 GMT		4 points
	As easy as it is to make fun of the Royals for never having a 40 HR guy, it's worth mentioning that they play in one of the worst home run parks in baseball. It's one of the largest outfields around, plus the stadium construction blocks the west wind, which means it's almost never blowing out. You know that huge crown they have that sits 440 feet away in center? Sure, it's far, but you'd think more than only TWO people would have hit it since the place opened in 1972 (Reggie Jackson and Bo Jackson). It's just a bad place for power hitters.

	jprg1966:	May 11th, 2011 at 02:33 GMT		6 points
	How did 21% of quiz takers not guess Hank Aaron?

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	dje:	May 11th, 2011 at 04:23 GMT		1 point
	it'll take the mets another 34 years to get another slugger. rough time to be a mets fan...

	MetaphysicalMan:	May 11th, 2011 at 04:28 GMT		1 point
	Love child of Cy Young and Ted Williams?

	thebombdiggity15:	May 11th, 2011 at 04:37 GMT		3 points
	@ClintT13: It's not just the Royals, it's Kansas City. Not even back when they were the A's did they have a 40 HR guy. The city knows no power.

	BiloxiSean:	May 11th, 2011 at 05:36 GMT		6 points
	Hack Wilson, I didn't really care about the single season HR mark, cause I knew someone would make a run at 61. But no one will come close to Hack's 191 RBI.

	herrod54:	May 11th, 2011 at 10:47 GMT		0 points
	WAY too much time.

	3knamix:	May 11th, 2011 at 11:50 GMT		-1 points
	I am against the Subtitle on this quiz because the Mets did have sluggers. Darryl Strawberry never hit 40 but he hit 39 twice and 37 once and led the league in homers in 1988

	gene:	May 11th, 2011 at 13:19 GMT		6 points
	Roy Sievers hit 42 for the Senators in 1957? I could have sworn Lola & Mr. Applegate saw to it that Joe Hardy accomplished this feat back in '55.......