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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 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). In the sport of baseball, a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching home plate in one play
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.
Cabrera's path to 500 home runs began in his first MLB game on June 20, 2003. ... per MLB.com. It was his first home run in the city since September of 2017. ... He's signed through 2023 and could ...
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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 .
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.
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.