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Crash Course
02-03-2005, 02:12 PM
How many players have had at least one 500-at-bat season while never falling below that level? Who are they?
Crash Course
02-04-2005, 11:59 AM
Hint: Homer's moot
hhascup
02-06-2005, 08:18 PM
Albert Pujols, Ichiro Suzuki & Hideki Matsui are 3.
Crash Course
02-06-2005, 10:27 PM
Funny. I don't think they were even on the list I saw!
PianoMonkey
02-07-2005, 01:03 AM
Gehrig's an obvious guess.
PianoMonkey
02-07-2005, 01:08 AM
While checking another obvious guess, I realized that until he retired, I had never been alive that Cal Ripken didn't play in the All Star Game. That's pretty absurd, even for a relative youngling like myself.
Crash Course
02-07-2005, 08:07 AM
Amazing.
And, Gehrig was not on the list I saw - - maybe it's a bad list?
KCBOOMER
02-07-2005, 09:31 AM
Gehrig had four non-500 AB seasons.
KCBOOMER
02-07-2005, 09:49 AM
Rocco Baldelli and Mark Teixeira are another two.
Crash Course
02-07-2005, 11:01 AM
I had a bad question! Sorry guys. Seems there's more to this than I thought.

http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=13311&bid=953

Even a cursory glance at Homer Smoot's entry in baseball encyclopedias may register the fact that there was something very unusual about his career. A closer inspection reveals what is so odd: in each of Smoot's five major league campaigns, he collected at least 500 at bats. The brief list of players who had at least one 500-at-bat season while never falling below that level underscores the uniqueness of Smoot's achievement: Smoot (1902-06), Joe Cassidy (1904-05), Irv Waldron (1901), Scotty Ingerton (1911), Al Boucher (1914), Dutch Schliebner (1923), Art Mahan (1940), and Johnny Sturm (1941). How did Homer Smoot become the answer to a trivia question too hard even for the annual SABR Trivia Contest?
hhascup
02-07-2005, 11:20 AM
I had a bad question! Sorry guys. Seems there's more to this than I thought.

http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&pid=13311&bid=953

I guess it would have been right if it was worded differently.

Players that have completed their ML careers.
Crash Course
02-07-2005, 11:30 AM
Good point.
RascalJones
02-07-2005, 01:20 PM
Seems silly to track a stat and list of "record holders" where most of them only ever played one season.
hhascup
02-07-2005, 03:46 PM
Seems silly to track a stat and list of "record holders" where most of them only ever played one season.


You could put a season min. on it if you wish.
RascalJones
02-07-2005, 03:54 PM
You could put a season min. on it if you wish.

They did. ONE.
hhascup
02-07-2005, 06:45 PM
That's not the 1st question that that has happened.