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Another rare 40-40 in baseball - 40 homers and 40 doubles. One of these days I am going to make a list of those seasons. Albert Belle had a 50-50 season sometime in the 1990's...

Ellsworth 21:20, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

I am pretty sure you are referring to Belle's historic 50 homeruns and 50 doubles season in 1995? Nick81aku 21:05, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, that's it. It was 52 homers and 50 doubles, actually. Ellsworth 23:59, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

OK, to begin:

Willie Stargell, 1973.
Lou Gehrig, 1927, 1930 and 1934.
Babe Ruth, 1921 and 1923
Hank Greenberg, 1937 and 1940
Frank Thomas (baseball player), 2000

Also impressive is the list of players who didn't do it. Just a few:

Hank Aaron
Jimmie Foxx
Mickey Mantle
Willie Mays
Mel Ott
Ted Williams
Hack Wilson
Jim Thome as of 2005

Here's a full list (40 doubles / 40 HR) - 32 times by 23 different players: Bagwell (1997), Belle (1995, 1998), Burks (1996), Delgado (2000), Gehrig (1927, 1930, 1934), J. Gonzalez (1998), Greenberg (1937, 1940), Green (1999), Helton (2000, 2001), Hidalgo (2000), Hornsby (1922), Jones (1999), Klein (1929, 1930), D. Lee (2005), Ortiz (2004, 2005), Pujols (2003, 2004), M. Ramirez (2004), Ruth (1921, 1923), Stargell (1973), Teixeira (2005), Thomas (2000), Trosky (1936), and Walker (1997). Dsreyn 18:07, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

Interesting - did not know it had become that much more common in recent years. So from 1922-1940 it was done 11 times by 6 players, from 1941-1994 it was done once (by Willie), and from 1995-present it's been done 20 more times. Ellsworth 00:30, 8 September 2006 (UTC)