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Aaron established the record for most seasons with thirty or more home runs in the National League. On April 27, 1971, Aaron hit his 600th career home run, the third major league player ever to do so. [49] On July 13, Aaron hit a home run in the All-Star Game (played at Detroit's Tiger Stadium) for the first time. [50]
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.
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 ...
On Opening Day 1974, Hank Aaron hit a three-run shot off the Reds’ Jack Billingham at Riverfront Stadium to tie Babe Ruth’s record of 714 home runs.
The Braves broke camp a few days later, and on April 8, before a record crowd of 53,775 in Atlanta, Aaron connected off Dodgers lefty Al Downing for his record-breaking 715th home run.
This limited his opportunities at the plate, whereas Hammerin' Hank came right in and started, well, hammerin' the ball. Aaron ended up playing in 700 more games than Ruth, which led to about ...
The location of where Hank Aaron's record 755th home run landed has been monumented in Milwaukee. [36] The spot sits outside American Family Field, where the Milwaukee Brewers currently play. Similarly, the point where Aaron's 715th home run landed, upon breaking Ruth's career record in 1974, is marked in the Turner Field parking lot.
REUTERSIt never took Hank Aaron long to circle the bases after he had hit another of the home runs that became both his signature and his burden. Even on that April night in 1974 when he smote his ...