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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.
This can be accomplished either by hitting the ball out of play while it is still in fair territory (a conventional home run) or by an inside-the-park home run. Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. [a] He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007.
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.
Murray is one of only seven players in MLB history to be in both the 3,000 hit club and the 500 home run club. [1] He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2003 in his first year of eligibility. [2] In the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (2001), Murray is described as the fifth-best first baseman in major league history.
On September 24, 1940, Foxx became the second member of the 500 home run club when he hit a sixth-inning home run off George Caster. [2] For nearly 67 years, he held the record for the youngest major leaguer to reach 500 home runs. His 534 home runs are currently 19th all time, and his 1,922 RBI are tenth all time.
It was a wait, but Miguel Cabrera became the 28th player to reach 500 home runs. ... Tigers slugger Miguel Cabrera joins exclusive 500-home run club. Cassandra Negley. August 22, 2021 at 3:46 PM ...
In Major League Baseball (MLB), a player joins a statistical club when he attains a certain milestone number in a specific statistical category.For milestones that encompass an entire career, batters must achieve 3,000 hits or 500 home runs; pitchers must amass 300 wins or 3,000 strikeouts.
Thome was born in Peoria, Illinois, on August 27, 1970, [4] and is the youngest of five children. [5] Many of the Thome family played sports: Jim's grandmother was hired at a local Caterpillar plant solely to play for the company's softball team; his father built bulldozers for Caterpillar and played slow-pitch softball; [5] [6] his aunt Caroline Thome Hart is in the Women's Softball Hall of ...