Friday, April 3, 2009

Friday trivia fun: Top HR hitter by letter

Here's a trivia question: Who are the Major league all-time home run leaders for each letter of the alphabet?

I'll give you the first one:

A) Hank Aaron

Feel free to use the comments for your guesses. The answer will be posted at 4pm EST today. If anyone cheats and posts the whole answer in the comments, I will delete it!

(there is no X, by the way)

15 comments:

Ditmars1929 said...

Do we have to use Bonds* for "B" or can we find someone legit?

dinologic (Dean D) said...

Ha ha. I actually sat here for a few minutes thinking...B...B...B...Hmmmmm.

Bonds didn't even come to mind!

Jason @ IIATMS said...

There are no asterisks here.

Rory The Great said...

A is for Aaron
B is for Bonds
C is for Canseco
D is for Delgado?
F is for Foxx
G is for Griffey Jr.
H is for
J is for Reggie
K is for Killebrew
M is for May
O is for Ott
P is for Palmero
R is for Ruth
S is for Sosa
T is for Frank Thomas
W is for Williams
Y is for Yastremski(spellings off)
Z if for .........Carlos Zambrano?(definitely wrong)

Tons of Roids on this list. WOW

Rory The Great said...

Actually Z might be Ryan Zimmerman

Craig Calcaterra said...

Bonds
Canseco
Delgado
Darrell Evans
No idea on F
Griffey
no idea on H or I
Reggie Jackson
Killebrew

OK, it's getting hard. I'm guessing Ruth is R.

Rory The Great said...

Craig, how did you miss Foxx?

Ron Rollins said...

E = Darrell Evans
I = Pete Incaviglia
L = Chet Lemon
N = Nettles
Q = Jamie Quirk
U = Del Unser
V = Mickey Vernon


Those are just swags, but close. I think.

Ron Rollins said...

H = Rogers Hornsby

The Common Man said...

Bonds
Conigliaro
Delgado
Edmonds
Foxx
Gehrig
Hornsby
Iorg (Dane or Garth?)
Jackson
Killebrew
Lee (Carlos)
Mays
Nixon (Trot)?
Ott
Palmeiro
Quirk
Ruth
Sosa
Thome
Uhlander?
Vaughn (Greg)
Williams
Yaz
Zernial

Unknown said...

Aaron
Bagwell (there is a blank space in my brain for the other guy)
Canseco
Delgado
Erstad
Foxx
Josh Gibson
Hornsby
Incavilia (sp)
Jackson
Killebrew
Listash
Mays
Nobody important
Oft
Palmiero
Quentin
Ruth
Sosa
Thome
Utley barely beating uggla?
Votto
Williams but wieters is almost there
Xavier nady
Yaz
Zaun

Unknown said...

I posted before reading the other post. Whoops on Edmonds Nettles and Lee. But I stand by josh Gibson!

Carl said...

X = Xavier Nady!

HIM said...

HIM is for H

mikel said...

I think this is the "real" list:

Aaron
Bonds (Ernie Banks 2nd)
Canseco (Joe Carter 2nd)
Delgado
Darrell Evans
Foxx
Gehrig
Frank Howard from the 60s
Incaviglia
Reggie Jackson
Killebrew
Luzinski (one homer ahead of Fred Lynn)
Mays
Nettles
Mel Ott
Palmeiro (Mike Piazza 2nd)
Carlos Quentin
Ruth
Sosa (Schmidt 2nd)
Thome
Utley
Greg Vaughn
Ted Williams
NO X
Yaz
Todd ZEILE!