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Posted: **Thu May 31, 2012 5:22 pm**

Three players in major league history have finished a season with a slugging percentage of .900 or better with at least 40 plate appearances. You should know all of them. Who are they?

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2012 5:32 pm**

Is one of them that year that Ted Williams came back from Korea?

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2012 6:22 pm**

Yes, Teddy Ballgame '53 is the best known of the three. As I said, the other two should be known to most of us as well.

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2012 7:00 pm**

Great question! Even with Google, it took a while to find:

JD Drew & Shane Spencer, both 1998

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=17065

Posted: **Thu May 31, 2012 8:09 pm**

[quote:e195c29dfe="tcochran"]Great question! Even with Google, it took a while to find:

JD Drew & Shane Spencer, both 1998

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=17065[/quote:e195c29dfe]

So Ted Williams is the only non-PED player to do it.

Posted: **Fri Jun 01, 2012 4:44 pm**

Yes, Drew and the great Shane Spencer both did it in the peak of the roids era. Some of you may remember that Shane graced the SI cover for their 1999 season preview. Talk about backing the wrong horse!

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