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MLB home run record progression

Order by the year each home run mark was set. Place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time — three wrong guesses and the run is over.

MLB home run record progression
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How MLB home run record progression is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

28 of the 28 cards you could be dealt. The values stay hidden until you place them.

  • George Hall — 5 Led the first NL season, Philadelphia
  • Charley Jones — 9 Single-season leader, Boston
  • Ned Williamson — 27 Short Chicago fences
  • Roger Connor — 138 Retired as career home run leader
  • Babe Ruth — 29 Broke the single-season record, Boston
  • Babe Ruth — 54 New York Yankees
  • Babe Ruth — 59 Passed Roger Connor as career leader
  • Rogers Hornsby — 42 NL best, St. Louis Cardinals
  • Babe Ruth — 60 Single-season record, New York
  • Hack Wilson — 56 NL single-season record, Chicago Cubs
  • Jimmie Foxx — 58 Philadelphia Athletics
  • Hank Greenberg — 58 Detroit Tigers
  • Ralph Kiner — 54 Pittsburgh Pirates
  • Roger Maris — 61 Broke Ruth's single-season record, New York
  • Willie Mays — 52 San Francisco Giants
  • Hank Aaron — 715 Passed Babe Ruth as career leader, Atlanta
  • George Foster — 52 Cincinnati Reds
  • Cecil Fielder — 51 Detroit Tigers
  • Ken Griffey Jr. — 56 Seattle Mariners
  • Mark McGwire — 70 Broke the single-season record, St. Louis
  • Sammy Sosa — 66 Chicago Cubs
  • Mark McGwire — 65 St. Louis Cardinals
  • Sammy Sosa — 63 Chicago Cubs
  • Barry Bonds — 73 Single-season record, San Francisco
  • Sammy Sosa — 64 Chicago Cubs
  • Barry Bonds — 762 Passed Hank Aaron as career leader, San Francisco
  • Giancarlo Stanton — 59 Miami Marlins
  • Aaron Judge — 62 AL single-season record, New York

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