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kairos12

(13,248 posts) Fri May 21, 2021, 04:27 PM May 2021

The player who holds the record for hitting the most HRs (career) after homering in his 1st AB.

Ken Gaetti.

360 HRs.

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The player who holds the record for hitting the most HRs (career) after homering in his 1st AB. (Original Post) kairos12 May 2021 OP

Any relation to Gary Gaetti? Diamond_Dog May 2021 #1

That's a pretty exclusive club to belong to Brother Buzz May 2021 #2

Very interesting. kairos12 May 2021 #3

He won over a lot of Giants fans with that homer Brother Buzz May 2021 #4

Diamond_Dog

(34,773 posts)

1. Any relation to Gary Gaetti?

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Fri May 21, 2021, 04:34 PM

May 2021

Brother Buzz

(37,826 posts)

2. That's a pretty exclusive club to belong to

Reply to kairos12 (Original post)

Sat May 22, 2021, 11:49 AM

May 2021

And two members joined on the same day with consecutive home runs!. How cool is that?

Tyler Austin August 13, 2016 New York Yankees AL 33
Aaron Judge August 13, 2016 New York Yankees AL 119

kairos12

(13,248 posts)

3. Very interesting.

Reply to Brother Buzz (Reply #2)

Sat May 22, 2021, 12:07 PM

May 2021

BTW--the man behind Gaetti is Will Clark.

Brother Buzz

(37,826 posts)

4. He won over a lot of Giants fans with that homer

Reply to kairos12 (Reply #3)

Sat May 22, 2021, 12:50 PM

May 2021

Early on, all the buzz was all about Will "The Thrill" Clark.

When all is said and done, I had more pleasure watching another Will playing first base for the Giants - Willie "Stretch" McCovey. Boy howdy, there was always electricity in the air when he stepped up to the plate.

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