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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 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.
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.
And we're here to break down all 500 homers. Miguel Cabrera has finally joined the 500-homer club, in his 14th season with the Detroit Tigers. And we're here to break down all 500 homers.
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Detroit Tigers DH Miguel Cabrera goes deep off Toronto Blue Jays' Steven Matz for his 500th homer and his 2,955th career hit.
On September 24, 1940, Foxx became the second member of the 500 home run club when he hit a sixth-inning home run off George Caster. [2] For nearly 67 years, he held the record for the youngest major leaguer to reach 500 home runs. His 534 home runs are currently 19th all time, and his 1,922 RBI are tenth all time.
Bonds is the only player in MLB history to hit 500 home runs and steal 500 bases. That said, among members of this club, his 40-40 season is arguably the least impressive based on the pure numbers.