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60 Home Runs in a Season Club

Try to name the players that have hit 60 home runs in a single season in Major League baseball.
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Last updated: October 1, 2023
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First submittedOctober 3, 2022
Times taken6,756
Average score83.3%
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Years
HR
Player
2022
62
Aaron Judge
2001
73
Barry Bonds
2001
64
Sammy Sosa
1995
65
Mark McGwire
1999
63
Sammy Sosa
1998
70
Mark McGwire
1998
66
Sammy Sosa
1961
61
Roger Maris
1927
60
Babe Ruth
19 Comments
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Level 72
Oct 3, 2022
This quiz is missing Mark McGwire's 1999 season. He hit 65 that season.
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Level ∞
Oct 3, 2022
Added, thanks.
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Level 35
Oct 4, 2022
it says 1995, it should say 1999.
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Level 67
Oct 4, 2022
I saw that and knew that was wrong. '98 was the year Maris was passed for the first time, not '95. The day after McGwire hit 62 I got my driver's license and set out on the road in my '89 Buick LeSabre with a sony discman plugged into the lighter. Good times.
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Level 85
Oct 3, 2022
9 entries, and only 3 of them legit.
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Level 85
Oct 3, 2022
Apparently, Roger Maris' son feels the same way, saying that if Judge hits #62, he (Maris) would view him (Judge) as the single-season HR record-holder.

I know, officially, according to MLB, it's Bonds. But I would share Maris, Jr.'s view.

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Level 55
Oct 4, 2022
How about a band box asterisk? Ignoring all the other opaque efforts to benefit hitters over the past decade, new Yankee stadium has little league dimensions. What did outfields look like in 1927 and 1961?
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Level 85
Oct 4, 2022
Yet Judge has hit more homers on the road than at Yankee Stadium.
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Level 67
Oct 4, 2022
I'm no fan of the Yankees, but plenty of Judge's home runs are monster shots. And the cheap home runs in Yankee Stadium are in the right field seats. As a righty, Judge hits most of his to left.
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Level 55
Oct 4, 2022
Judge is a very good ballplayer. He is certainly not a one-dimensional power hitter, nor is he just getting cheap homeruns.

I'm just not willing to say that any of these are not legit. Ruth had to hit in cavernous fields, even on the road, but was the pitching the same? Bonds was an incredible ball player, before drugs, after drugs. Anyone can frame an argument to minimize any one of these achievements.

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Level 44
Oct 4, 2022
Only one is legit, Judge has faced the greatest collective of skilled pitchers in this modern era.
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Level 74
Oct 4, 2022
THis is way to much time for only 6 names
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Level 78
Oct 4, 2022
Too much time.
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Level 70
Oct 4, 2022
Wow... he finally did it
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Level 69
Oct 4, 2022
aaaaand Judge now has 62
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Level 88
Oct 5, 2022
Maybe you should have waited until tonight -- one game left -- to update this quiz. He might go further...
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Level 56
Oct 5, 2022
Judge is benched tonight to rest before the postseason starts. Looks like 62 will be set in stone
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Level 69
Oct 8, 2022
It's strange to me that Maris is the toughest answer.
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Level 50
Oct 14, 2023
It's pretty bad that half the people on here were on steroids...