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While Mantle and Roger Maris pursued Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in the AL, Mays and Orlando Cepeda battled for the home run lead in the NL. [104] Mays trailed Cepeda by two home runs at the end of August (34 as opposed to 36), but Cepeda outhit him 10–6 in September to finish with 46, while Mays finished with 40. [105]
Willie Mays, the dynamic baseball ... Barry Bonds, who was Mays’ godson and holds the MLB career record for home runs at 762 after playing in the majors from 1986 to 2007 – including for the ...
Willie Mays is one of 18 MLB players to hit four home runs in one game, and he did it at County Stadium in 1961. ... tying the major-League record, and Hank Aaron hit two for the Braves, bringing ...
Babe Ruth was the first player to reach 600 home runs. He set a career home run mark of 714 that stood until 1974. In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 600 home run club is a group of batters who have hit 600 or more regular-season home runs in their careers. [1] Only nine players have qualified. Four of these—Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Albert ...
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.
Mays is also the only player with more than 300 home runs, 300 stolen bases, 3,000 hits and a lifetime .300 batting average — all milestone marks in the sport. But even Stark acknowledges the ...
Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays (660), Ken Griffey Jr. (630), Jim Thome (612), and Sammy Sosa (609) are the only other players to have hit 600 or more. Giancarlo Stanton is the active home run leader with 429.
A timeline of Willie Mays’ career: 1931 (May 6) — Born in Westfield, Alabama. 1948 — Joins Birmingham Black Barons of Negro leagues. 1950 — Signs with New York Giants for $4,000. 1951 (May 25) — Major league debut. 1951 (May 28) — First major league hit after 0-for-12 start — a home run off Milwaukee’s Warren Spahn.