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In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 50 home run club is the group of batters who have hit 50 or more home runs in a single season. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Babe Ruth was the first to achieve this, doing so in 1920.
A player has hit 50 or more home runs 42 times, 25 times since 1990. [14] Only six players have hit 60 or more in one season, with Aaron Judge the most recent. [14] The lowest home run total to lead a major league was four, recorded in the NL by Lip Pike in 1877 and Paul Hines in 1878. [21]
The following is a list of records for a game, season, or career that were broken in each Major League Baseball season by players, teams, or others. This does not include dates when additional stats were recorded by the same player above one's own record set (unless broken by someone else in between) or records by a team that do not lead the majors.
Ohtani became the first player in baseball history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a single season, shattering the ceiling on what a 6-foot-4, 210-pound slugger who can also pitch at a ...
Shohei Ohtani reached 50-50, then 51-51, with one of the best games in MLB history. Ohtani reaching 50-50 felt inevitable by the time Thursday rolled around, as he entered the game with 48 homers ...
Josh Gibson, who played 510 game in the Negro League, holds the record for highest batting average, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging in a career. Barry Bonds holds the career home run and single-season home run records. Ichiro Suzuki collected 262 hits in 2004, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old record for most hits in a season.
Four baseball bats that were used in setting single-season home run records. From left to right: bat used by Babe Ruth to hit his 60th home run during the 1927 season, bat used by Roger Maris to hit his 61st home run during the 1961 season, bat used by Mark McGwire to hit his 70th home run during the 1998 season, and the bat used by Sammy Sosa ...
Josh Gibson batted over .300 in all but one season of his 14-year career en route to a career batting average of .372. Set by Josh Gibson in 1946 after beginning his career in 1930, though only considered to be the record by Major League Baseball from 2024 onwards. [ 72 ]