All-Time Home Run List

Yesterday, Alex Rodriguez hit his eighth home run of the year, giving him a career total of 437. Despite all the attention on Barry Bonds, A-Rod is piling up the homers at a much faster rate.
Hank Aaron didn’t hit his 437th home run until September 1966. He was nearly two years older than Rodriguez is now. If A-Rod hits 13 more home runs before the end of the year, he’ll break Ken Griffey Jr.’s record as the youngest player to 450.
Of course, he’s still a long way away from Hank Aaron’s 755. A-Rod will need to average 36 home runs a year for nine more years. In fact, he’s still not even 60% of the way to 755.
Here’s the top 35 (active players in italics):
Aaron………………755
Ruth………………..714
Bonds………………713
Mays……………….660
Sosa……………….588
Robinson………….586
McGwire…………..583
Killebrew………….573
Palmeiro……………569
Jackson…………….563
Schmidt…………….548
Griffey………………539
Mantle……………..536
Foxx…………………534
McCovey…………..521
Williams…………….521
Banks……………….512
Mathews…………..512
Ott…………………..511
Murray………………504
Gehrig……………….493
McGriff………………493
Musial………………..475
Stargell……………..475
Winfield……………..465
Canseco……………..462
Thomas………………455
Sheffield…………….453
Yastrzemski…………452
Bagwell………………449
Thome………………..444
Kingman……………..442
Ramirez……………..441
Dawson………………438
Rodriguez……………437

Posted by on May 13th, 2006 at 5:52 am


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