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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).
Mike Schmidt led the National League in home runs eight times, the second most such titles in MLB history. Mark McGwire led the league in home runs 4 times including 52, 65, and record-breaking 70 home run seasons. His 58 home runs in 1997 led neither league due to a mid-season trade which split this total across 2 leagues.
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's passing of Roger Connor for the career home-run record was not recognized at the time. Connor's career total of 138 was not accurately documented until the 1970s; at one time, he was thought to have hit only 131. September 15: Most home runs, season – 55 by Ruth; ended the season with 59.
No player has ever hit four home runs in a postseason game; that record is three, first accomplished by Babe Ruth in Game 4 of the 1926 World Series. [2] According to the Society for American Baseball Research, Oil Cities catcher Jay J. Clarke went 8–8 with eight home runs, a single-game professional record. However, Clarke's total is ...
Shohei Ohtani broke Hideki Matsui's major league record for homers by a Japanese-born player with a huge two-run shot in the third inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers snapped their three-game skid ...
The key difference between Ruth and Ohtani, though, is that 100-plus home run mark. Ohtani is playing at an MVP level in 2023, with a .294/.362/.515 slash line, but he has a long way to go career ...
The book is in three major sections, "Part 1: The Career", "Part Two: The Analysis", and "Part Three: The Facts". The first section is devoted to a year-by-year recap of Babe Ruth's career. It starts in 1914 and runs through Ruth's final season in 1935. Each chapter features personal highlights and picks out Ruth's longes