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LarrySC
06-09-2009, 02:57 PM
Any player ever have his first 4 career hits be a single, double, triple, and home run (in any order)? They don't have to be in the same game, only that his first 4 hits be that.
Utter Chaos
06-09-2009, 03:26 PM
Jerry Brooks did it with the first four hits of his career and also with the last four hits of his career.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/brookje01.shtml
josh24
06-09-2009, 09:48 PM
Claude Hendrix
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.............and i'm sure there are some others
RuthMayBond
06-10-2009, 10:06 AM
Were it not for 5 pesky games at the beginning of his career, Gary Ward did it all in one game
josh24
06-10-2009, 10:31 AM
Were it not for 5 pesky games at the beginning of his career, Gary Ward did it all in one game

Gary Ward? His first 4 career hits were singles.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?n1=wardga01&t=b&year=1979
RuthMayBond
06-10-2009, 10:33 AM
Gary Ward? His first 4 career hits were singles.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/gl.cgi?n1=wardga01&t=b&year=1979Were it not for 5 pesky games at the beginning of his career...
josh24
06-10-2009, 10:40 AM
Were it not for 5 pesky games at the beginning of his career...

Sorry, i didn't read that part :o
Trivia Guy
06-10-2009, 11:39 AM
Here's an article that I wrote recently about what I call a "season cycle" --- four hits in a season, but one of each type.

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/columns/column.php?id=281
RuthMayBond
06-10-2009, 11:47 AM
Here's an article that I wrote recently about what I call a "season cycle" --- four hits in a season, but one of each type.

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/columns/column.php?id=281I believe Claude Hendrix applies to this as well
Trivia Guy
06-10-2009, 11:58 AM
I believe Claude Hendrix applies to this as well

According to my source, he had four hits in 1911 but had two singles, a double and a homer. But no triple.
RuthMayBond
06-10-2009, 12:30 PM
According to my source, he had four hits in 1911 but had two singles, a double and a homer. But no triple.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hendrcl01-bat.shtml

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/H/Phendc101.htm
Trivia Guy
06-10-2009, 12:57 PM
http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/hendrcl01-bat.shtml

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/H/Phendc101.htm

Interesting! I'll have to check it out later to figure out which is correct, but it looks like you are probably right.

Thanks!
RuthMayBond
06-10-2009, 01:05 PM
Interesting! I'll have to check it out later to figure out which is correct, but it looks like you are probably right.

Thanks!For the record, there is one job I do NOT want, and that is trying to be better at trivia than TG (or UC, or janduscframe, to name a few).
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