A week ago there was the following comment was posted on our
suggestions page by Psychump :
I am currently collecting the 1963 Topps baseball set and today I received card #117 Jacke Davis. As with each card I get I look up his career on B-R. I noticed he only played a few games(48) in the majors and saw he only one home run. I checked the game logs and noticed his only home run was against Sandy Koufax(two out ninth inning pinch hit 3 run job no less! Ruining A 2 hit shutout as well!). Which leads me to this question, Who else(if any) has hit his only home run against a Hall Of Famer?
I found this comment interesting because for a while now, I have been thinking about using something similar in a trivia question. Instead, let's use it as a readers research question and I'll explain how you can use the Baseball-Reference.com Play-Index to find this on a case-by-case basis.
On every player page on BB-R there is a section called HR log. This information which was gathered by the SABR is available for both home runs by hitters and home runs allowed by pitchers. If saved as a URL (by clicking share) it is also searchable by the season finder.
Therefore, if you save all the home runs allowed by
Sandy Koufax and use that saved search as the basis for a batting career home run search, you can see which players that homered off Koufax and had only 1 career HR. Of course, it would be prudent to check if anyone hit multiple HRs off Koufax and not anyone else, but that can also be easily done with the new list.
To create a complete list, all we would have to do is check all of the HOF pitchers, which may be somewhat time consuming individually, but should be quite easy as a group.
Here are the 68 Hall-of Famers who pitched at least 450 innings in the major leagues. If you check one of them, even if there result is that there are none, let me know in the comments and I'll put it in the chart:
| Rk |
Player |
IP |
Players |
| 1 |
Cy Young |
7356.0 |
Benny Bowcock, Tom Nagle |
| 2 |
Pud Galvin |
6003.1 | Bob Casey
|
| 3 |
Walter Johnson |
5914.1 |
Slim Harriss, Luke Stuart |
| 4 |
Phil Niekro |
5404.0 |
Lee Smith, Joe Niekro, Joe Decker |
| 5 |
Nolan Ryan |
5386.0 |
----------------- |
| 6 |
Gaylord Perry |
5350.0 |
----------------- |
| 7 |
Don Sutton |
5282.1 |
Glenn Gulliver, Rick Stelmaszek |
| 8 |
Warren Spahn |
5243.2 |
Al Jackson, Al Moran |
| 9 |
Steve Carlton |
5217.2 |
Tim Leary |
| 10 |
Pete Alexander |
5190.0 |
Ray Keating |
| 11 |
Kid Nichols |
5067.1 |
Fred Lake |
| 12 |
Tim Keefe |
5049.2 |
Gus Krock, Pete Sweeney |
| 13 |
Bert Blyleven |
4970.0 |
-------------- |
| 14 |
Mickey Welch |
4802.0 |
Hi Ebright |
| 15 |
Christy Mathewson |
4788.2 |
Willie Sudhoff, Dick Bayless |
| 16 |
Tom Seaver |
4783.0 |
Dan McGinn |
| 17 |
Robin Roberts |
4688.2 |
Al Worthington |
| 18 |
Early Wynn |
4564.0 |
Allie Reynolds, Vic Raschi |
| 19 |
John Clarkson |
4536.1 |
Tun Berger, Guerdon Whiteley |
| 20 |
Old Hoss Radbourn |
4527.1 |
------------------------- |
| 21 |
Fergie Jenkins |
4500.2 |
Jeff Russell, Craig Swan, Joe Hoerner, Guy Sularz,
Ricky Seilheimer, Kevin Pasley |
| 22 |
Eddie Plank |
4495.2 |
Oscar Graham |
| 23 |
Eppa Rixey |
4494.2 |
---------------------- |
| 24 |
Red Ruffing |
4344.0 |
Al Niemiec |
| 25 |
Burleigh Grimes |
4180.0 |
Bill Dreesen,
Fred Bailey |
| 26 |
TEd Lyons |
4161.0 |
George Stumpf , Rip Collins |
| 27 |
Red Faber |
4086.2 |
George Quellich |
| 28 |
Vic Willis |
3996.0 |
Claude Elliott |
| 29 |
Jim Palmer |
3948.0 |
Bill Parsons
|
| 30 |
Lefty Grove |
3940.2 |
-------------------------- |
| 31 |
Bob Gibson">Bob Gibson |
3884.1 |
Clay Carroll
|
| 32 |
Bob Feller |
3827.0 |
------------------------- |
| 33 |
Amos Rusie |
3778.2 |
Jack Harper, George Sharrott |
| 34 |
Waite Hoyt |
3762.1 |
Dick Reichle, Ed Morris |
| 35 |
Jim Bunning |
3760.1 |
---------------------- |
| 36 |
Carl Hubbell |
3590.1 |
--------------------- |
| 37 |
Herb Pennock |
3571.2 |
Larry Woodall |
| 38 |
Juan Marichal |
3507.0 |
---------------------- |
| 39 |
Catfish Hunter |
3449.1 | ----------------------- |
| 40 |
Joe McGinnity |
3441.1 |
Chick Fraser, Roy Patterson, Henry Thielman |
| 41 |
Don Drysdale |
3432.0 |
------------------------ |
| 42 |
Clark Griffith |
3385.2 |
Red Donahue, Dad Clarkson, Willard Mains |
| 43 |
Rube Marquard |
3306.2 |
Peaches Graham |
| 44 |
Dennis Eckersley |
3285.2 |
------------------------- |
| 45 |
Jesse Haines |
3208.2 |
Socks Seibold, Rowdy Elliott |
| 46 |
Mordecai Brown |
3172.1 |
Larry Pratt |
| 47 |
Whitey Ford |
3170.1 |
------------------------- |
| 48 |
Stan Coveleski |
3082.0 |
----------------------- |
| 49 |
Chief Bender |
3017.0 |
---------------------- |
| 50 |
Hal Newhouser |
2993.0 |
Willard Brown |
| 51 |
Dazzy Vance |
2966.2 |
Mack Hillis and Herb Thomas |
| 52 |
Ed Walsh">Ed Walsh |
2964.1 |
------------------------ |
| 53 |
Rube Waddell |
2961.1 |
--------------------- |
| 54 |
Jack Chesbro |
2896.2 |
----------------------- |
| 55 |
Al Spalding |
2886.1 |
??????????????? |
| 56 |
Bob Lemon |
2850.0 |
Dixie Upright, Fred Sanford |
| 57 |
Lefty Gomez |
2503.0 |
-------------------- |
| 58 |
Monte Ward |
2469.2 |
Joe Quest |
| 59 |
Addie Joss |
2327.0 |
-------------------- |
| 60 |
Sandy Koufax |
2324.1 |
Jacke Davis |
| 61 |
Hoyt Wilhelm |
2254.1 |
Jack Meyer |
| 62 |
Candy Cummings |
2149.2 |
?????????????? |
| 63 |
Dizzy Dean |
1967.1 |
--------------------- |
| 64 |
Rich Gossage |
1809.1 |
--------------------- |
| 65 |
Rollie Fingers |
1701.1 |
--------------------- |
| 66 |
Babe Ruth |
1221.1 |
--------------------- |
| 67 |
Bruce Sutter |
1042.0 |
--------------------- |
| 68 |
Satchel Paige |
476.0 |
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