List of Major League Baseball career home run leaders
This is a list of the top 500 Major League Baseball home run hitters. In the sport of baseball, a home run is a hit in which the batter scores by circling all the bases and reaching the home plate in one play. This can be accomplished both 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. He passed Hank Aaron, who is currently second with 755, on August 7, 2007. Third is Babe Ruth with 714. Willie Mays (660), Sammy Sosa (609) and Ken Griffey, Jr. (600) are the only other players to have hit 600 or more.
List
Listed are all Major League Baseball players with 130 or more home runs, the current cutoff for the top 500 (includes ties for the top 500, whenever applicable). Players in bold face are active as of the 2008 Major League Baseball season (including free agents), with the number in parentheses designating the number of home runs they hit during that season.
The stats are updated as of June 9, 2008.
- Template:Fnb There have been two players named Frank Thomas. The active player has played since 1990 with the White Sox, Athletics, and Blue Jays. The earlier player with 286 HRs played from 1951 to 1966 with the Pirates, Reds, Cubs, Braves, Mets, Phillies and Colt .45s (now Astros).
- Asterisk needs no explanation.
Close to the top 500
As of June 9 2008, four active players are within five home runs of entering the top 500, now with a cutoff of 130 career homers:
- Russell Branyan (126)
- Ramón Hernández (126)
- Aaron Boone (125)
- Jose Vidro (125)
See also related lists
- List of lifetime home run leaders through history
- 500 home run club
- List of Major League Baseball players with 3000 hits and 500 home runs
- List of Major League Baseball players with 3000 hits and 300 home runs
- MLB players with 2,000 hits
- MLB players with 400 doubles
- MLB players with 100 triples
- MLB players with 1,000 runs
- MLB players with 1,000 RBI
- MLB players with 300 stolen bases
- Top MLB leaders in base on balls (walks)
- Top 15, and List of active Major League Baseball players in the Top 50 in strikeouts
- List of Major League Baseball players with a .400 on-base percentage
- List of Major League Baseball players with a .500 slugging percentage
- List of Major League Baseball players with a .900 on-base plus slugging