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Babe Ruth was the first player to reach 500 home runs and set a career home run mark of 714 that stood until 1974. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 500 home run club is a group of batters who have hit 500 or more regular-season home runs in their careers. There are twenty-eight players who are members of the 500 home run club.
Barry Bonds holds the record for most career home runs, hitting 762 over his 22-year career. This is a list of the 300 Major League Baseball players who have hit the most career home runs in regular season play (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games).
This is a list of some of the records relating to home runs hit in baseball games played in the Major Leagues.Some Major League records are sufficiently notable to have their own page, for example the single-season home run record, the progression of the lifetime home run record, and the members of the 500 home run club.
It was a wait, but Miguel Cabrera became the 28th player to reach 500 home runs. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways ...
Twice in his career Mantle hit a home run off the third-deck facade at Yankee Stadium, nearly becoming the only player to hit a fair ball out of the stadium during a game. On May 22, 1963, against Kansas City's Bill Fischer , Mantle hit a home run against the 110-foot (34 m) high facade, before the ball caromed back onto the playing field. [ 67 ]
Bonds is the only player in MLB history to hit 500 home runs and steal 500 bases. That said, among members of this club, his 40-40 season is arguably the least impressive based on the pure numbers.
Sadaharu Oh holds the Nippon Professional Baseball home run record (as well as the world lifetime home run record) [1] with 868. He passed Hank Aaron (who is currently second on the Major League Baseball career home run list) with 755, on September 3, 1977. [2] The only other NPB player to have hit 600 or even more home runs is Katsuya Nomura with
The following is a chronology of the top ten leaders in lifetime home runs in Major League Baseball.This includes any home runs hit by a player during official regular season games (i.e., excluding playoffs or exhibition games) in the National Association (1871–1875), National League (since 1876), the American Association (1882–1891), the Union Association (1884), the Players' League (1890 ...