Interesting that Kansas City & the Royals franchise had different home run leaders for such a long time.
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.

Washington, DC is like that, with Walter Johnson & Sam Rice of the original Senators on top of a lot of categories. Juan Soto has a pretty good chance of equal prominence, if he’s signed to a contract extension.

Frank Howard held the Rangers' franchise single-season HR record for 32 years; he set it as a Washington Senator. AROD is the only guy to surpass him.

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.

Bunny Brief hit 42 and 40 homers for the Blues in 1921-22. Vince DiMaggio hit 46 for them in 1939. I never knew Vince was briefly Yankee property.

@3 Frank Howard still holds the major league single season HR record for a Washington DC mlb player when he hit 48 in 1969. Alfonso Soriano has the Nats franchise record with 46 in 2006. Funny thing is Howard led the AL in HR in both 68 & 70 with 44 both years but didn’t lead the AL in 1969 since Reggie hit 49

New York's NL home run record was held by Giants until two years ago.

Ummm ... Killebrew led the AL in 1969 with 49 HR. Howard had 48, Jackson 47 (though he had an absolute insane 37 at the All Star break -- a total he bested only 3 times in a full season in his career, with 41 in 1980 and 39 in 1982, in addition to the 47).

My mistake. I must’ve gotten Reggie’s HR total & another A’s player McGwire’s 49 HR from 1987 mixed up. Killebrew was quite a slugger, I’m surprised I overlooked him hitting 49 & remember it as Reggie’s total

I started buying baseball cards in 1970 (though I didn't really begin paying attention to actual on-field play till '71, for some reason), so the 1969 numbers are pretty well emblazoned in my brain.

#9 I started to play Stratomatic in 1969. The stats from 1969, 1970 and 1971 are similarly emblazoned in my mind.

I’m not great with remembering stats but I will say my statistical recall is it’s strongest in years I collected baseball cards

bought my first Topps cards in '68 and have similar level of memory still

i continue to spell my (real) name in all lower case and I'm wondering if it's because of something about the 1971 Topps set that is etched in my brain. Those were nice with the faux autographs, although they didnt do the full season by season thing on the back now that I think about it. I remember thinking that was a gyp.

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.

I bought the heck out of the '71 set as well. I was playing little league (lower-cased because I know of no affiliation with the actual organization), & the little concession stand sold packs.

looking at them again, the 69 series is almost a perfect mash up of the 67 and 68 series. It uses the no border and floats the team name in the bottom like 67. THe font is the same or nearly the same. And it uses the bubble w/ name/position from 68. I think the 67s are the best of those; they feel really compelling e.g. the Tony Perez one that is awesome, and I remember the Gaylord Perry one was cool too.