What 2 teammates hold the record for combined HRS over the length of their careers together?

[kairos12]

...Aaron and Mathews.

[Diamond_Dog]

1. Great trivia!

[SCantiGOP]

2. My favorite baseball trivia question: only player to steal a base in 4 decades

Ted Williams, who was not known as a base stealer, only had 24 career steals (and was caught 17 times).
Two came in his rookie year of 1939, then he had some throughout the 40's (when he missed three years in the military) and 50's, and he played his last year in 1960. There is some speculation that the opposing team did not make a full effort to throw him out when he stole his one base that year.

[kairos12]

3. If you don't mind some input on this.

Williams was the first to do it. There have been 3 others: Henderson, Omar Vizquel, and Tim Raines.

I've always asked the Williams question as who was the first to do it.

Best baseball to you.

Another good question. Who is the only switch hitter in history to hit .300 from both sides of the plate. Only one player ever did it.

Chipper Jones.

[patphil]

4. They just nosed out Ruth and Gehrig

Aaron and Mathews had 863 while teammates on the Braves.
Ruth and Gehrig had 859 while teammates on the Yankees.

[kairos12]

5. Exactly right.

[patphil]

6. What did we do before the internet?

[kairos12]

7. When I was in High School our baseball stat debates were settled by us calling,

from a pay phone, to the sports desk at the St. Louis Sports-Dispatch. Some of the reporters got used to us and would look up answers for us in their archives. We only trusted them.



My kids looked at me like I was crazy when I told them this story.

[patphil]

8. Question answered!

[Bleacher Creature]

9. Wow, how did I miss this one???

I guessed Frank Thomas and Paul Konerko. Had I been thinking, I would have gone with Ruth and Gehrig. Totally forgot about Eddie Matthews.

[Auggie]

10. Had Cleveland kept Manny Ramirez and Jim Thome together: 1,167

Give or take a few

Unlikely the Aaron/Mathews record will ever be broken let alone threatened with free agency.