MLB home run record progression
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MLB home run record progression
Order by the year each home run mark was set. You place all 28 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.
28
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3
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release years and dates
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How to play the MLB home run record timeline
Baseball's home run records are the subject, with every card a mark that set a new standard, showing the player and his total, with a note underneath on the team or which record it was. You're ordering the marks by the year they were set. One card is already down, its year in view. Then it's one card at a time, each dropped into a gap you pick. A right pick reveals the year; a wrong one still moves the card to its true slot but costs one of three lives.
Single-season records, league bests and career marks are all mixed together, so a bigger number is not automatically a later one. The note tells you which kind of record each card is, and that's the key to reading the deck. Several sluggers appear more than once, and the chase years when records fell in quick succession are where the cards bunch up.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 28 cards you might be dealt. Their 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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