First 40/40 Club member (MLB)

The first Major League Baseball (MLB) player to join the 40/40 Club was Jose Canseco (Cuba), after hitting 40 home runs and stealing 40 bases in a single season in 1998. Canseco achieved this while playing for Oakland Athletics (USA).

Only six other players have accomplished this feat. Barry Bonds (USA) of the San Francisco Giants joined the club in 1996, followed by Seattle Mariners' Alex Rodriguez (USA) in 1998, Alfonso Soriano (Dominican Republic) of the Washington Nationals (USA) in 2006, Ronald Acuña, Jr. (Venezuela) of the Atlanta Braves in 2023, Shohei Ohtani (Japan) of the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2024 (who became baseball’s first 50-50 player), and Pete Crow-Armstrong (USA) of the Chicago Cubs in 2026.