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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.
Ruth set the Major League Baseball single-season home run record four times, first at 29 (1919), then 54 (1920), 59 (1921), and finally 60 (1927), all in the American League. [12] Ruth's 1920 and 1921 seasons are tied for the widest margin of victory for a home run champion as he topped the next highest total by 35 home runs in each season.
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).
Home runs Season Barry Bonds: San Francisco Giants: 73 2001 Mark McGwire: St. Louis Cardinals: 70 1998 Sammy Sosa: Chicago Cubs: 66 1998 Mark McGwire: St. Louis Cardinals: 65 1999 Sammy Sosa: Chicago Cubs: 64 2001 Sammy Sosa: Chicago Cubs: 63 1999 Aaron Judge: New York Yankees: 62 2022 Roger Maris: New York Yankees: 61 1962 Babe Ruth: New York ...
September 8: Most home runs, season – 62 by Mark McGwire; later extended to 70. Sosa also broke the 37-year-old record held by Roger Maris and was briefly the sole record-holder, hitting his 66th home run of the season (which would be his final total) before McGwire did.
Single-season batting records Statistic Player Record Season Ref Batting average: Babe Herman ... Home Runs: 279 (2019) Grand Slams: 10 (2004) Pinch-Homers: 12 (2000)
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 ...
List of Major League Baseball career records; List of Major League Baseball single-season records; List of Major League Baseball single-game records; List of Major League Baseball records considered unbreakable; List of Major League Baseball record breakers by season; List of Major League Baseball individual streaks