Home Run against 30 different teams

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 06:30 AM

I probably missed somebody but I believe Wednesday night Sammy Sosa became the 19th player to hit a home run against all 30 major league teams.

Who are the other 18?

edit to add there's actually 26 that have done it

1. Sammy Sosa
2. Gary Sheffield (by Brooklyn)
3. Alfonso Soriano (by Brooklyn)
4. Ellis Burks (by Old Sweater)
5. Bret Boone (by Brooklyn)
6. Rafael Palmiero (by Brooklyn)
7. Mike Cameron (by Brooklyn)
8. Tony Clark (by Brooklyn)
9. Shawn Green (by Brooklyn)
10. Raul Mondesi (by Brooklyn)
11. Eric Davis (by Brooklyn with a hint)
12. Glenallen Hill (by Brooklyn with a hint)
13. Richie Sexson (by Old Sweater)
14. Adrian Beltre (by Old Sweater)
15. Jose Guillen (by Old Sweater)
16. Tony Batista
17. Carl Everett
18. Charles Johnson
19. Rondell White
20. David Bell
21. Russell Branyan
22. Brian Giles
23. Jeff Kent (just did it Thursday night)
24. Phil Nevin
25. Mike Piazza
26. Dmitri Young

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 07:20 AM

Originally Posted by NewEnglandAmazins

Frank Robinson, Barry Bonds & Ken Griffey Jr.?

F.Robinson (no Tampa, Florida, Colorado, Arizona, Toronto, Seattle, Mont/Wash)
Bonds (no Cleveland, Tampa)
Griffey (no Seattle)

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 07:21 AM

Originally Posted by geezer

Fred Mc Griff???

McGriff (no Tampa)

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 07:57 AM

Originally Posted by Tyrus4189Cobb

Hank Aaron??
Manny Ramirez???

Aaron (no Seattle, Toronto, Colorado, Florida, Tampa, Arizona, White Sox, Atlanta, Milwaukee)
Manny (no Colorado, Arizona)

Hint: In order to have it a homer against all 30 teams a player would have had to be playing in 1998 or later.

**KCGHOST** · 06-21-2007, 08:05 AM

Jim Thome??

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 08:15 AM

Originally Posted by Brooklyn

Guesses:

Delgado
Thome
Vlad
Sheff
Soriano
Beltran
Irod

Delgado (no Toronto)
Thome (no Philadelphia)
Vlad (no Anaheim)
Sheff YES!
Soriano YES!
Beltran (no Houston, San Francisco)
Irod (no Cincinnati, Washington)

**Old Sweater** · 06-21-2007, 09:23 AM

Walker, Burks or Galarraga?

**Brooklyn** · 06-21-2007, 10:02 AM

This is harder then I would have thought. I was trying to find guys that made multiple stops in both leagues, but with interplay, they really just needed to be in each league.

More guesses:

Brett Boone
Jose Valentin
Mike Cameron
Tony Clark
Fred McGriff

And some more that I had originally excluded, but who knows

A-Rod? Probalby not, as he has never played in the NL, but he has hit a ton of homeruns since interlague started
Manny? - probalby not for same reason
Bonds? - ditto
Palmeiro? Tough to get Cubs, maybe other NL teams as well as he didn't hit a lot of homers there
Shawn Green? tough to get Toronto
Griffey? - not sure if he would have gotten Seattle or Cincy
Edmonds? - also tough to get Angels and Cards
McGwire? - if he got A's and Cards
Glaus? - wasn't in NL very long, but did hit 37 homeruns for Airzona

**Baseball Guru** · 06-21-2007, 10:21 AM

Todd Zeile?

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 10:21 AM

Add these to the correct list:

4. Ellis Burks (by Old Sweater)
5. Bret Boone (by Brooklyn)
6. Rafael Palmiero (by Brooklyn)
7. Mike Cameron (by Brooklyn)
8. Tony Clark (by Brooklyn)
9. Shawn Green (by Brooklyn)

Of the remaining 5, two are retired and three are active. The three active players all play on the same team!

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by Trivia Guy

A couple of guesses ----

Mark McGwire?
Jim Thome?

They've already been guessed. Thome missed the Phillies and McGwire missed Tampa, Oakland, and the Cardinals.

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 10:58 AM

Originally Posted by Old Sweater

Is the 3 active players on the same team.....

Kent, Garciaparra and Luis Gonzalez?

Nope, Kent missed Toronto, Nomar missed Boston and the Cubs and Gonzo missed Baltimore and Arizona.

**Brooklyn** · 06-21-2007, 10:59 AM

another guess: Greg Vaughn

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 11:01 AM

Originally Posted by Brooklyn

For the two retired, Tino Martinez and Raul Mondesi?

Whoops, I missed Mondesi so he's number 15. Tino is incorrect.

**Brooklyn** · 06-21-2007, 11:03 AM

Originally Posted by Utter Chaos

Whoops, I missed Mondesi so he's number 15. Tino is incorrect.

Glad I'm adding to the list, but I'm running out of guesses. here are three more retired players. Ventura, Olerud, Justice

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Brooklyn

another guess: Greg Vaughn

Nope.

Another hint for the two retired players. I'll list the number of homers they hit with their primary team and the number of career homers they had.

Player A hit 59 out of his 186 career homers for the Cubs
Player B hit 177 out of his 282 career homers for the Reds.

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 11:06 AM

Originally Posted by Brooklyn

Glad I'm adding to the list, but I'm running out of guesses. here are three more retired players. Ventura, Olerud, Justice

Nope, nope, and nope. Olerud was a good guess but he missed the Mets.

**Brooklyn** · 06-21-2007, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by Utter Chaos

Nope.

Another hint for the two retired players. I'll list the number of homers they hit with their primary team and the number of career homers they had.

Player A hit 59 out of his 186 career homers for the Cubs
Player B hit 177 out of his 282 career homers for the Reds.

I don't think I ever would have guessed Glenallen Hill and Eric Davis without those hints.

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by Brooklyn

I don't think I ever would have guessed Glenallen Hill and Eric Davis without those hints.

That's the two. Now all that's left is the three active players that are teammates.

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 11:26 AM

Originally Posted by Old Sweater

Moises Alou, Shawn Green and Carlos Delgado?

Nope......

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by Old Sweater

Richie Sexson, Adrian Beltre and Jose Guillen?

DING DING DING DING!

I think that's the complete list of players that have homered against all 30 teams but I'm sure there's a good chance I missed somebody else.

www.retrosheet.org was a great source. Just find the player and click on career splits to see how they fared against each team.

**Utter Chaos** · 06-21-2007, 02:07 PM

Just found four more to add to the list:

16. Tony Batista
17. Carl Everett
18. Charles Johnson
19. Rondell White

**Utter Chaos** · 06-22-2007, 05:48 AM

Thursday night Jeff Kent homered against Toronto so he becomes the 20th person to homer against all 30 teams.

I also compiled a list of players that homered against every team that existed when they played. If I missed anybody let me know.

20 Teams
Joe Adcock
Don Demeter

24 Teams
Deron Johnson

26 Teams
Jack Clark
George Hendrick
Graig Nettles
Dave Parker
Rusty Staub

**Utter Chaos** · 06-22-2007, 10:56 AM

Originally Posted by Utter Chaos

Thursday night Jeff Kent homered against Toronto so he becomes the 20th person to homer against all 30 teams.

I also compiled a list of players that homered against every team that existed when they played. If I missed anybody let me know.

20 Teams
Joe Adcock
Don Demeter

24 Teams
Alex Johnson
Deron Johnson

26 Teams
Rico Carty
Jack Clark
George Hendrick
Graig Nettles
Dave Parker
Rusty Staub

30 Teams
1. Sammy Sosa
2. Gary Sheffield
3. Alfonso Soriano
4. Ellis Burks
5. Bret Boone
6. Rafael Palmiero
7. Mike Cameron
8. Tony Clark
9. Shawn Green
10. Raul Mondesi
11. Eric Davis
12. Glenallen Hill
13. Richie Sexson
14. Adrian Beltre
15. Jose Guillen
16. Tony Batista
17. Carl Everett
18. Charles Johnson
19. Rondell White
20. David Bell
21. Russell Branyan
22. Brian Giles
23. Jeff Kent (just did it Thursday night)
24. Phil Nevin
25. Mike Piazza
26. Dmitri Young

Thanks to Sean Forman this list has been updated.