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Thursday, October 07, 2021
Another intriguing but less publicized aspect of Perez’s excellent 2021 campaign was his pursuit of the Kansas City major league and Royals franchise single-season home run records. Most major league cities and their residing franchise have the same single-season home run record holder. Yet, for the majority of the fifty-plus history of the Kansas City Royals this was not the case as the city and the franchise had two separate record holders. In fact, Kansas City baseball has its own rich history of major league play which predates the existence of the Royals franchise and traces its origins back to the 19th century. Over the years, a variety of sluggers have held the city’s home run record. These sluggers have taken the field for such franchises as the Monarchs and Athletics with some competing in now defunct major leagues like the American Association and the Negro Leagues.
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1. Fiore Gino Posted: October 07, 2021 at 03:48 PM (#6044536)Oakland is a city that has a different single season home run leader than its franchise: the A’s leader is Jimmie Foxx with 58, Mark McGwire set the Oakland record with 52.
Howard is still third in career home runs for WSA/TEX, behind Juan Gonzalez and Rafael Palmeiro – despite only playing a half-season for Texas and hitting only 9 HR while here.
I always confuse the 68 and 69 sets because they both have that bubble with the name/team, its the same bubble both years so its confusing. 68 has that cross hatch background which is kind of blah to me.
I think 70 layout maybe my favorite of all, I like the basic simplicity of name/team on the bottom. And the blue and yellow on the backside seems to match smell of powdered sugar.
72 I thought was cool when I first got them then I realized that look was sickening.
73 I thought was really classic with the little icons to represent positions, even the left hand pitchers got left hand icons. But it's been pointed out that the action pics are horrible because the shadows cover everyone's face and alot of them are too far away. I always wondered which one was Joe Rudi in that card, I think the middle guy is Bando, turns out none of those guys are Rudi! I still like that set.
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