08-02-2022, 04:55 PM
- Ted Williams, Babe Ruth and Stan Musial have done it 12 times
- Lou Gehrig, Henry Aaron, Rogers Hornsby, Al Simmons and Sam Crawford have done it ten times
- Willie Mays, Ty Cobb and Harry Heilmann have done it nine times
- Honus Wagner and Luis Pujols have done it eight times
- Al Kaline, Frank Robinson, Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Miguel Cabrera, Cap Anson, Orlando Cepeda, Johnny Mize, and Sam Thompson have done it seven times.
Williams, Banks, Schmidt, McCovey, Ott, Rice, Yastrzemski, Greenberg, Bonds, not on the list.
Sam Thompson is probably the best player you've never heard of. He played for the Detroit Wolverines from 1885 to 1889, then the Philadelphia Phillies from 1890 to 1898. He also played one year as a fifth outfielder when he was 46 years old, on the 1906 Detroit Tigers -- Cobb's rookie season. Thompson's career line is .331/.384/.505/.889. He was an RBI machine. His career RBI-to-games played ratio is the highest in MLB history. He was a right fielder with a cannon for an arm, he participated in 61 double plays (16th all time for outfielders) and had 283 assists (still 12th all time for outfielders). He had some good speed...he was the first player with 20 HRs and 20 SBs in a season. He hit a home run in his first plate appearance off of Hall of Famer Tim Keefe. He was a carpenter in Indiana and didn't play pro baseball until he was 24.
- Lou Gehrig, Henry Aaron, Rogers Hornsby, Al Simmons and Sam Crawford have done it ten times
- Willie Mays, Ty Cobb and Harry Heilmann have done it nine times
- Honus Wagner and Luis Pujols have done it eight times
- Al Kaline, Frank Robinson, Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Miguel Cabrera, Cap Anson, Orlando Cepeda, Johnny Mize, and Sam Thompson have done it seven times.
Williams, Banks, Schmidt, McCovey, Ott, Rice, Yastrzemski, Greenberg, Bonds, not on the list.
Sam Thompson is probably the best player you've never heard of. He played for the Detroit Wolverines from 1885 to 1889, then the Philadelphia Phillies from 1890 to 1898. He also played one year as a fifth outfielder when he was 46 years old, on the 1906 Detroit Tigers -- Cobb's rookie season. Thompson's career line is .331/.384/.505/.889. He was an RBI machine. His career RBI-to-games played ratio is the highest in MLB history. He was a right fielder with a cannon for an arm, he participated in 61 double plays (16th all time for outfielders) and had 283 assists (still 12th all time for outfielders). He had some good speed...he was the first player with 20 HRs and 20 SBs in a season. He hit a home run in his first plate appearance off of Hall of Famer Tim Keefe. He was a carpenter in Indiana and didn't play pro baseball until he was 24.
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