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Brave New Home Run Record

2005-09-12 21:49

by Mike Carminati

Andruw Jones hit homers number 48 and 49 yesterday to establish a new Braves franchise record for home runs in a season topping the old record of 47 shared by Hall-of-Famers Hank Aaron (1971) and Eddie Matthews (1953).

On Jones's next homer, the Braves will become the 16th team with at least fifty-homer player. In the primordial days of baseball—that is, before 1993—fifty-homer seasons were harder to come by than competent FEMA employees.

Since the homer boom over the last dozen years, fifteen teams have had their single-season home run records broken. And you have to consider that there were just 26 teams prior to the home run boom.

Here are the franchise records currently and before 1993:

Franchise	First	Last	HR Ldr	HR	Yr	pre-1993 HR Ldr	HR	Yr
Anaheim Angels	1961	2004	Troy Glaus	47	2000	Reggie Jackson	39	1982
Arizona Diamondbacks	1998	2004	Luis Gonzalez	57	2001
Atlanta Braves	1876	2004	Andruw Jones	49	2005	Eddie Mathews	47	1953
						Hank Aaron	47	1971
Baltimore Orioles	1901	2004	Brady Anderson	50	1996	Frank Robinson	49	1966
Boston Red Sox	1901	2004	Jimmie Foxx	50	1938	Jimmie Foxx	50	1938
Chicago Cubs	1876	2004	Sammy Sosa	66	1998	Hack Wilson	56	1930
Chicago White Sox	1901	2004	Albert Belle	49	1998	Carlton Fisk	37	1985
						Dick Allen	37	1972
Cincinnati Reds	1882	2004	George Foster	52	1977	George Foster	52	1977
Cleveland Indians	1901	2004	Jim Thome	52	2002	Al Rosen	43	1953
Colorado Rockies	1993	2004	Larry Walker	49	1997
Colorado Rockies	1993	2004	Todd Helton	49	2001
Detroit Tigers	1901	2004	Hank Greenberg	58	1938	Hank Greenberg	58	1938
Florida Marlins	1993	2004	Gary Sheffield	42	1996
Houston Astros	1962	2004	Jeff Bagwell	47	2000	Jimmy Wynn	37	1967
Kansas City Royals	1969	2004	Steve Balboni	36	1985	Steve Balboni	36	1985
Los Angeles Dodgers	1884	2004	Shawn Green	49	2001	Duke Snider	43	1956
Milwaukee Brewers	1969	2004	Gorman Thomas	45	1979	Gorman Thomas	45	1979
Milwaukee Brewers	1969	2004	Richie Sexson	45	2001
Milwaukee Brewers	1969	2004	Richie Sexson	45	2003
Minnesota Twins	1901	2004	Harmon Killebrew	49	1964	Harmon Killebrew	49	1964
Minnesota Twins	1901	2004	Harmon Killebrew	49	1969	Harmon Killebrew	49	1969
New York Mets	1962	2004	Todd Hundley	41	1996	Darryl Strawberry	39	1987
						Darryl Strawberry	39	1988
New York Yankees	1901	2004	Roger Maris	61	1961	Roger Maris	61	1961
Oakland Athletics	1901	2004	Jimmie Foxx	58	1932	Jimmie Foxx	58	1932
Philadelphia Phillies	1883	2004	Mike Schmidt	48	1980	Mike Schmidt	48	1980
Pittsburgh Pirates	1882	2004	Ralph Kiner	54	1949	Ralph Kiner	54	1949
San Diego Padres	1969	2004	Greg Vaughn	50	1998	Nate Colbert	38	1970
						Nate Colbert	38	1972
San Francisco Giants	1883	2004	Barry Bonds	73	2001	Willie Mays	52	1965
Seattle Mariners	1977	2004	Ken Griffey Jr.	56	1997	Gorman Thomas	32	1985
Seattle Mariners	1977	2004	Ken Griffey Jr.	56	1998
St. Louis Cardinals	1882	2004	Mark McGwire	70	1998	Johnny Mize	43	1940
Tampa Bay Devil Rays	1998	2004	Aubrey Huff	34	2003
Tampa Bay Devil Rays	1998	2004	Jose Canseco	34	1999
Texas Rangers	1961	2004	Alex Rodriguez	57	2002	Frank Howard	48	1969
Toronto Blue Jays	1977	2004	George Bell	47	1987	George Bell	47	1987
Washington Nationals	1969	2004	Vladimir Guerrero	44	2000	Andre Dawson	32	1983

Comments

2005-09-13 08:01:48

1. Mike from Hoboken

Cool stuff.
So now you can ask people a good trivia question: Who's the only player to hold two the single-season HR record for two franchises? You'll see if people can think through the problem or just throw up their hands right away like the governor of Louisiana.

2005-09-13 18:41:44

2. Mike Carminati

Yeah, I love her Michael Brown impersonation.

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