Just playing around with Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batting Game Finder, looking for guys since 1954 who got off to a fast start, in terms of  having big games where they got on base a lot, I was able to work up this list setting the filters for "From 1954 to 2009, In team's first 40 games, (requiring TOB>=3), sorted by greatest number of games matching selected criteria in a game."  Here's the players to do this 16+ times:

                   Year Games Link to Individual Games
+-----------------+----+-----+-------------------------+
 Barry Bonds       2002    20 Ind. Games
 Frank Thomas      1995    19 Ind. Games
 Manny Ramirez     2001    19 Ind. Games
 Tony Phillips     1993    19 Ind. Games
 Jason Giambi      2001    19 Ind. Games
 Barry Bonds       1993    19 Ind. Games
 Frank Thomas      1994    18 Ind. Games
 Stan Musial       1958    18 Ind. Games
 Joe Morgan        1975    18 Ind. Games
 Wade Boggs        1986    18 Ind. Games
 Wade Boggs        1988    18 Ind. Games
 Albert Belle      1994    18 Ind. Games
 Frank Thomas      1997    17 Ind. Games
 Lonnie Smith      1989    17 Ind. Games
 Alex Rodriguez    2000    17 Ind. Games
 Stan Musial       1954    17 Ind. Games
 John Kruk         1993    17 Ind. Games
 Todd Helton       2001    17 Ind. Games
 Jim Edmonds       2000    17 Ind. Games
 Will Clark        1994    17 Ind. Games
 Bobby Bonds       1970    17 Ind. Games
 Lance Berkman     2004    17 Ind. Games
 Jay Bell          2000    17 Ind. Games
 Jeff Bagwell      1996    17 Ind. Games
 Hank Aaron        1959    17 Ind. Games
 Kevin Youkilis    2006    16 Ind. Games
 Ted Williams      1957    16 Ind. Games
 Jim Thome         1997    16 Ind. Games
 Johnny Temple     1957    16 Ind. Games
 Norm Siebern      1962    16 Ind. Games
 Pete Rose         1976    16 Ind. Games
 Jose Offerman     1995    16 Ind. Games
 Paul O'Neill      1994    16 Ind. Games
 Paul O'Neill      1996    16 Ind. Games
 Melvin Mora       2004    16 Ind. Games
 Kenny Lofton      1999    16 Ind. Games
 Wally Joyner      1996    16 Ind. Games
 Rickey Henderson  1987    16 Ind. Games
 Toby Harrah       1982    16 Ind. Games
 Carlos Delgado    2003    16 Ind. Games
 Norm Cash         1961    16 Ind. Games
 Barry Bonds       2004    16 Ind. Games
 Wade Boggs        1991    16 Ind. Games
 Richie Ashburn    1954    16 Ind. Games
 Roberto Alomar    1996    16 Ind. Games

Fun list, eh?

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