| Who was the youngest player to hit fifty home runs in a National League season?
Hint: #1 He and another player, who also had a relative who played in the majors, both hit their first major league home run in an interleague game against the Twins.
Hint: #2 Mother Nature had him hitting right-handed. His father thought otherwise.
Saturday’s question answered:
Q. Who was the first player to hit forty major league home runs in a season while playing for two major league teams, one in the American League and one in the National League?
Hint: #1 He won the MVP of the summer wood-bat league one year, but his cousin was MVP in the majors.
Hint: #2 He became the only player traded after a fifty-home run season. {Shh… It might have been the quietest 50-HR season ever in the majors.}
A. GREG VAUGHN [SSHoF Bio]
– Ans. In 1996, Vaughn hit 31 HR for MIL (then an AL team) & was traded at the deadline to SDP where he managed to hit 10 more off NL pitching.
– #1 Vaughn played for the Cotuit Kettleers of the Cape Cod Baseball League (CCBL), leading the team to league titles in both seasons & was league MVP in 1985. His ovate cousin Mo was AL MVP a decade later.
– #2 Vaughn hit 50 HR in the NL in 1998 when McGwire& Sosa were soaring past Roger Maris’ 1961 mark.
FCR – Jake Bell, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
