Kingman retired from baseball after 1986 or, as he tells it, baseball retired him. He hit 35 home runs and drove in 94 runs during his final season with the A's.

Dave Kingman, then with the Athletics, was 37 years old and playing in what would be his final season. He was fined $3,500, which is a little over $7,600 in 2016 dollars, for sending a live rat in a ...

But Ortiz also passed Dave Kingman for the most homers ever by a major league player in his final season. At age 37, Kingman hit 35 homers for the Oakland Athletics in 1986.

With a game-sealing three-run homer off Kevin Gausman Tuesday night, David Ortiz passed Dave Kingman's MLB record for home runs in a player's final season, with 36.

Dave Kingman actually hit 442 career home runs, a huge total considering he played from 1971-86. He twice led the league in homers and was definitely a feared power hitter.

The homer tied him with his boyhood hero, former Cub Dave Kingman. Thome passed Kingman Saturday night when he hit No. 443–a three-run homer in the fifth.

After my little note about the year Dave Kingman led the National League in home runs and still finished 24th in the league in slugging percentage, my colleague Joe DeMartino suggested I look up ...

David Ortiz broke the major league record for most home runs in a final season with his 36th blast in the seventh inning of the Red Sox's game against the Orioles on Tuesday night.