Good morning!
It's not yet the All-Star break, and the White Sox have three different hitters with 20 or more home runs on the season. You might recall that it took until September 7 of last season before a White Sox hitter reached the twenty dinger mark. Ultimately, two other players from the 2025 squad would reach 20, so this marks the first time that the Sox have had consecutive 20-home run campaigns from three or more players since 2018 and 2019.
Today's Sporcle will test your knowledge of other 20-dinger Sox batter seasons, dating all the way back to the first, in 1930. In all, that's 164 names: how many can you get? Good luck!
Quiz Parameters
- I’ve allotted 15 minutes for completion attempts
- For hints, I’ve provided the season and the number of dingers hit.
Useless information to amaze, annoy, confuse, and/or confound your friends and family:
- No White Sox batter ever got really close to 20 home runs before that first 1930 season: the closest was Happy Felsch in 1920, with 14.
- The first player in baseball’s modern era to log a 20 home run season is Frank Schulte in 1911, while playing for the Chicago Cubs. If your immediate thought was that it would be Babe Ruth, you weren’t far off: he was third in MLB history in 1919 with 29. (Gavvy Cravath is the middle child, hitting 24 for Philadelphia in 1915)
All data from stathead.com
