[Willie Bee]

Three sons of former major leaguers once homered in the same game. Who are they?

[BuddyBear]

The boone brothers????

[Willie Bee]

No Boone's involved.

It happened within the last 10 years.

[Mudcat]

Strictly guessing here.

Ken Griffey Jr. and Jose Cruz Jr. used to be teammates and both have some power so maybe they are good candidates and for a third name? I dunno. David Segui was on the Mariners somewhere around that time too so I'll say him.

[Willie Bee]

Very good, Mud. Two out of three, good enough to reveal the whole story...

June 9, 1999
Coors Field, Denver
Rockies - 16 , Mariners - 11

Ken Griffey Jr., David Segui and David Bell each homer for Seattle in the losing effort. Butch Huskey also goes deep for the M's, with all four of the long balls off Colorado starter Brian Bohanon.

Adding a little more to the story, Edgard Clemente, nephew of the late-great Roberto, goes yard for the Rockies.

[Willie Bee]

Assuming you mean coming into this season and not including this season in the count. Bonds, Sheffield and Sosa are the first three I can think of. Steve Finley maybe. Rafael Palmeiro's got to be one. Maybe Reggie Sanders or Larry Walker?

[Willie Bee]

Bonds & Palmeiro have to be on that list!

[tacomax]

Bonds has definately had 14+ seasons, but he didn't have 14 consecutive coming into this season if you see what I mean. Depends on the strict wording of the question.

[Willie Bee]

Ah, active. Plus I'm boneheading about Bonds last year, might be this second martini I'm on.



Does Piazza make it?

[Willie Bee]

I'm pretty sure I got all the names down, but not sure they did their research correctly.

Yeah, if you're listening to those numbnuts doing the Rangers, then there's a very good chance the 'boys in the truck' didn't feces coagulated on the research.

[Willie Bee]

I resorted to a lookup in my Baseball Encyclopedia for one name, admittedly. Jeff Kent makes it, he's such an easy guy for me to forget (drag mouse to highlight) for I dislike his lazy ass so.

[slacker00]

Ooh! Baseball junkies! Maybe you can answer an argument I had with my dad tonight about baseball.

I claimed that there were some baseball records set before the "modern era" which are not considered records because they were before the modern era, yet are records that are not yet broken. I think the "modern era" starts around 1902 or something like that. I couldn't name any of the records, but maybe you guys know what I'm trying to talk about. Can you give me any records set before the modern era that would still stand today if allowed?

[Willie Bee]

Slacker, the 'modern era' begins in 1900 according to most folks. This has been debated by some of the know-it-all's at ESPN who think it's time to shift that thinking forward to 1969. Personally, I think they're just trying to fill column inches.

You can also point to about 1893 as the beginning of present day baseball since that's when some significant rule changes took effect, among them moving the mound to 60'-6" from the plate.

But records that were set before 1900 that still stand include:

Batting Average, single season - .4397, Hugh Duffy in 1894

Runs scored in a season, single season - 192, Sliding Billy Hamilton in 1894

Stolen bases, single season - 138, Hugh Nicol in 1887

At Bats per Strikeout, single season - 328.0, George Bradley in 1883

ERA, single season - 0.857, Tim Keefe in 1880

Wins, single season - 59, Charley Radbourn in 1884 (the top 24 marks for wins in a season by one pitcher came before 1900)

Innings Pitched, single season - 680, by Will White in 1879 (the list for this at Baseball-Reference only includes the top 100 IP totals. All 100 are from before 1900)

Starts, single season - 75, Pud Galvin in 1883 and Will White in 1879 (here again, not one tally from after 1900 cracks the top 106)

Complete games, single season - 75, Will White in 1879 (ditto on the top 100 being pre-1900)

[slacker00]

Thanks Willie Bee!!!

*Bows to the baseball genius*