Has anyone hit more home runs than Babe Ruth?

Barry Bonds holds the Major League Baseball home run record with 762. He passed Hank Aaron, who hit 755, on August 7, 2007. The only other players to have hit 700 or more are Babe Ruth with 714 and Albert Pujols with 703. Alex Rodriguez (696), Willie Mays
Willie Mays
Willie Howard Mays Jr.

(born May 6, 1931), nicknamed "the Say Hey Kid" and "Buck", is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball (MLB). Regarded as one of the greatest players ever, Mays ranks second behind only Babe Ruth on most all-time lists, including those of The Sporting News and ESPN.
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(660), Ken Griffey Jr.
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Who has the highest HR per at bat?

Mark McGwire possesses the MLB record for this statistic with a career ratio of 10.61 at bats per home run and Babe Ruth is second, with 11.76 at bats per home run.
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Has anyone hit 7 home runs in a game?

"The White Sox hit seven home runs during Saturday's game against the Blue Jays at U.S. Cellular Field, and made dubious history in the process. Those seven long balls, all amazingly of the solo variety, were not enough to prevent a 10-8 loss.
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Who are the top 5 home run leader of all time?

Career Leaders & Records for Home Runs
  • Barry Bonds (22) 762. 12606. L. HR Log.
  • Henry Aaron+ (23) 755. 13941. R. HR Log.
  • Babe Ruth+ (22) 714. 10627. L. HR Log.
  • Albert Pujols (22, 42) 703. 13041. R. HR Log.
  • Alex Rodriguez (22) 696. 12207. R. HR Log.
  • Willie Mays+ (23) 660. 12545. R. ...
  • Ken Griffey Jr.+ (22) 630. 11304. L. ...
  • Jim Thome+ (22) 612. 10313. L.
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Who else has 3000 hits and 500 home runs?

Every position except catcher and pitcher has at least one player with 3,000 hits. Ten of these players have played for only one major league team. Seven players—Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Eddie Murray, Rafael Palmeiro, Albert Pujols, Alex Rodriguez, and Miguel Cabrera—are also members of the 500 home run club.
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Did Babe Ruth's legendary 1919 Tampa home run really go 587 feet?



Who is in the 4000 hit club?

The exclusive "4,000 hit club" is an informal term referring to members of an elite group of hitters: those players that have reached 4,000 hits on their careers. Currently, only two players have made the 4,000 hit club - Pete Rose and Ty Cobb. The next closest player to the club is Hank Aaron, with 3,771 hits.
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What is the hardest hit home run ever?

Below is a quick look at the top 19 -- including the postseason -- as well as the best of the non-Stanton/Judge group.
  • 1) Stanton: 121.7 mph. Date: Aug. ...
  • 2) Stanton: 121.3 mph. ...
  • 3) Judge: 121.1 mph. ...
  • 4) Stanton: 119.8 mph. ...
  • 5) Kyle Schwarber: 119.7 mph. ...
  • 6) Manny Machado: 119.6 mph. ...
  • 7) Judge: 119.4 mph. ...
  • 8) Stanton: 119.3 mph.
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Who is considered the home run king?

No, Judge is not the official major league home run champion. That record belongs to Barry Bonds, with his 73 home runs in 2001—just three years after Mark McGwire hit 70, and back when Judge was 9 years old growing up in Linden, Calif., about 100 miles east of San Francisco.
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Who holds the homerun record without steroids?

Barry Bonds has hit the most career homers, with 762 homers.
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Who is considered the best leader of all time?

History's 5 Best Leaders
  • Mahatma Gandhi. The founding father of nonviolent protest and a staunch pursuer of peace, Mahatma Gandhi embodied a complex leadership style, espousing many of the principles of intelligent leadership. ...
  • Martin Luther King Jr. ...
  • Abraham Lincoln. ...
  • Nelson Mandela. ...
  • Winston Churchill.
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Has there ever been a 2 pitch inning?

It's a pretty rare feat. But ... have you ever seen a two-pitch inning? As in, a pitcher only needs two pitches to record a clean inning of work? If you watched the Rome Braves' win over the West Virginia Power on Friday night, you did.
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Has anyone ever hit a 600 foot home run?

Then look up Joey Meyer's home run from 1987; it went nearly 600 feet into the upper level.
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Has anyone ever played all 9 positions in one game?

It was on that night that Campaneris -- then just a 23-year-old in his first full big league season -- became the first player in AL/NL history to play all nine positions in the same game. Only four other players have accomplished the feat since: Cesar Tovar (Sept. 22, 1968), Scott Sheldon (Sept.
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Who is the last person to bat 400?

Ted Williams is the last American League player to post a . 400 batting average in a season, achieving the feat in 1941.
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How many players hit 700 hrs?

On Sept. 23, as Pujols neared the end of his illustrious 22-year career, he joined the most exclusive home run club in baseball history. Of the more than 20,000 players who have participated in an MLB game, Pujols joined Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth as one of only four AL/NL players to have reached 700 homers.
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Who was the last person to bat 400 in a season?

400. On September 28, 1941, the last day of Major League Baseball's regular season, the Boston Red Sox's Ted Williams gets six hits in eight at-bats during a doubleheader in Philadelphia, boosting his average to .
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Who did Bonds hit 73 off of?

The all-time mark of 73 homers from Barry Bonds in 2001 is sullied because it's widely believed he used steroids, so some believe that the real record is the 61 now shared by Judge and Roger Maris.
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What is the true MLB home run record?

25, 2017, we had a talk about this. I'm a bit more mellow now as I've aged, so I won't be quite as mean, but I'll lay out essentially the same argument that I did then. The real single-season home run record is 73. Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs in 2001.
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What is the true home run record?

MLB's use of a deadened baseball — not steroids-aided records — has posed the biggest obstacle to Judge challenging the single-season home run record, which, regardless of your feelings on the matter, continues to be Barry Bonds' 73 home runs in 2001.
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Who hit the biggest home run?

What is the longest home run of all time? Here is the longest verified home run in professional baseball history! In 1987, Joey Meyer, playing for the Triple-A Denver Zephyrs, launched this ball an astonishing 582 FEET! The media could not be played.
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Who is the youngest to 100 home runs?

Mike Trout Becomes Youngest in MLB History to Hit 100 Home Runs, Steal 100 Bases.
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Who was the last player to hit 60 home runs?

On October 4, 2022 Aaron Judge hit his 62nd homerun of the year off Jesús Tinoco of the Texas Rangers passing Roger Maris for the AL home run record 61 years after Maris set it and making him only the sixth person to hit at least 60.
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Has any team hit 4 home runs in a row?

June 8, 1961: Milwaukee Braves belt a record four consecutive home runs in one inning.
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What is the most unbreakable record in baseball?

Top 5 Most Unbreakable Baseball Records
  • Cal Ripken's 2632 consecutive games played streak. Everyone said that Lou Gehrig's 2131 streak would never be broken. ...
  • Ty Cobb's . 367 career batting average. ...
  • Nolan Ryan's 5714 career strikeouts. Replay. ...
  • Joe DiMaggio's 56 game hit streak. ...
  • Babe Ruth's single season OPS of 1.546.
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What is the lowest home run ever hit?

Playing for a minor league team called the Minnesota Millers back in 1900, Andy Oyler hit the shortest home run in the history of the entire world. The home run traveled only 24 inches—that's right, two feet!
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