Editing Home run (section)

==Records==
Major League Baseball keeps running totals of all-time home runs by the team, including teams no longer active (before 1900) as well as by individual players. [[Gary Sheffield]] hit the 250,000th home run in all of MLB history with a grand slam on September 8, 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/2008-09-09-tigers-athletics_N.htm|work=USA Today|title=Sheffield hits MLB's 250,000th HR as Tigers beat A's|date=September 9, 2008}}</ref> Sheffield had hit the MLB's 249,999th home run against [[Gio González]] in his previous at-bat.

The all-time, verified professional baseball record for career home runs for one player, excluding the U.S. Negro leagues during the era of segregation, is held by [[Sadaharu Oh]]. Oh spent his entire career playing for the [[Yomiuri Giants]] in Japan's [[Nippon Professional Baseball]], later managing the Giants, the [[Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks]] and the 2006 World Baseball Classic Japanese team. Oh holds the all-time home run world record, having hit 868 home runs in his career.

In [[Major League Baseball]], the career record is 762, held by [[Barry Bonds]], who broke Hank Aaron's record on August 7, 2007, when he hit his 756th home run at [[AT&T Park]] off pitcher [[Mike Bacsik (left-handed pitcher)|Mike Bacsik]].<ref name="PEDs">Although Major League Baseball recognizes these records as official, some baseball historians decline to accept records accumulated by players like Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and others with the alleged assistance of [[steroids]] or other [[performance-enhancing drugs]]</ref> Only eight other major league players have hit as many as 600: [[Hank Aaron]] (755), [[Babe Ruth]] (714), [[Albert Pujols]] (703),<ref name="PEDs"/> [[Alex Rodriguez]] (696),<ref name="PEDs"/> [[Willie Mays]] (660), [[Ken Griffey Jr.]] (630), [[Jim Thome]] (612), and [[Sammy Sosa]] (609).<ref name="PEDs"/> [[Giancarlo Stanton]] holds the record for currently active MLB players with 429 as of the end of the 2024 season.

The single-season record is 73, set by Barry Bonds in 2001.<ref name="PEDs" /> Other notable single-season records were achieved by Babe Ruth who hit 60 in 1927, [[Roger Maris]], with 61 home runs in 1961, [[Aaron Judge]], with 62 home runs in 2022, and [[Sammy Sosa]] and [[Mark McGwire]], who hit 66 and 70 respectively, in [[1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase|1998]].<ref name="PEDs" />

[[Negro league baseball|Negro league]] slugger [[Josh Gibson]]'s Baseball Hall of Fame plaque says he hit "almost 800" home runs in his career. The ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]'' lists Gibson's lifetime home run total at 800. Ken Burns' award-winning series, ''[[Baseball (TV series)|Baseball]]'', states that his actual total may have been as high as 950. Gibson's true total is not known, in part due to inconsistent record-keeping in the Negro leagues. The 1993 edition of the MacMillan ''Baseball Encyclopedia'' attempted to compile a set of Negro league records, and subsequent work has expanded on that effort. Those records demonstrate that Gibson and Ruth were of comparable power. The 1993 book had Gibson hitting 146 home runs in the 501 "official" Negro League games they were able to account for in his 17-year career, about one home run every 3.4 games. Babe Ruth, in 22 seasons (several of them in the [[dead-ball era]]), hit 714 in 2503 games, or one home run every 3.5 games. The large gap in the numbers for Gibson reflects the fact that Negro League clubs played relatively far fewer league games and many more "barnstorming" or exhibition games during the course of a season, than did the major league clubs of that era.

Other legendary home run hitters include [[Jimmie Foxx]], [[Mel Ott]], [[Ted Williams]], [[Mickey Mantle]] (who on September 10, 1960, mythically hit "the longest home run ever" at an estimated distance of {{convert|643|ft|m|0}}, although this was measured after the ball stopped rolling<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.baseball-almanac.com/feats/art_hr.shtml |title=Longest Home Run Ever Hit by Baseball Almanac |publisher=Baseball-almanac.com |access-date=2013-07-16}}</ref>), [[Reggie Jackson]], [[Harmon Killebrew]], [[Ernie Banks]], [[Mike Schmidt]], [[Dave Kingman]], [[Sammy Sosa]]<ref name="PEDs" /> (who hit 60 or more home runs in a season three times), [[Ken Griffey Jr.]] and [[Eddie Mathews]]. In 1987, [[Joey Meyer (baseball)|Joey Meyer]] of the minor league [[Denver Zephyrs]] hit the longest verifiable home run in professional baseball history.<ref name="The New York Times">{{cite news|title=Sports of The Times; Joey Meyer's 582-Foot Homer|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/22/sports/sports-of-the-times-joey-meyer-s-582-foot-homer.html|access-date=23 June 2016|work=The New York Times|date=22 March 1988}}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite news|title=The mystery behind Joey Meyer's 582-foot home run at Mile High in 1987|newspaper=The Denver Post|date=18 July 2015}}</ref> The home run was measured at a distance of {{convert|582|ft|m|0}} and was hit inside Denver's [[Mile High Stadium]].<ref name="The New York Times"/><ref name="auto"/> On May 6, 1964, Chicago White Sox outfielder [[Dave Nicholson]] hit a home run officially measured at 573 feet that either bounced atop the left-field roof of [[Comiskey Park]] or entirely cleared it. Major League Baseball's longest verifiable home run distance is about {{convert|575|ft|m|0}}, by Babe Ruth, to straightaway center field at [[Tiger Stadium (Detroit)|Tiger Stadium]] (then called Navin Field and before the double-deck), which landed nearly across the intersection of Trumbull and Cherry.{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=May 2017}}

The location of where Hank Aaron's record 755th home run landed has been monumented in Milwaukee.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070607&content_id=2011893&vkey=news_mil&fext=.jsp&c_id=mil |title=Brewers pinpoint Aaron's final homer |publisher=Milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com |access-date=2013-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130520173358/http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070607&content_id=2011893&vkey=news_mil&fext=.jsp&c_id=mil |archive-date=2013-05-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The spot sits outside [[American Family Field]], where the Milwaukee Brewers currently play. Similarly, the point where Aaron's 715th home run landed, upon breaking Ruth's career record in 1974, is marked in the [[Turner Field]] parking lot. A red-painted seat in [[Fenway Park]] marks the landing place of the 502-ft home run [[Ted Williams]] hit in 1946, the longest measured home run in Fenway's history; a red stadium seat mounted on the wall of the [[Mall of America]] in Bloomington, Minnesota, marks the landing spot of [[Harmon Killebrew]]'s record 520-foot shot in old [[Metropolitan Stadium]].

May 2019 saw 1,135 MLB home runs, the highest ever number of home runs in a single month in Major League Baseball history. During this month, 44.5% of all runs scored were the result of a home run, breaking the previous record of 42.3%.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/26866585/homer-rate-hits-monthly-high-1120-may |title=Homer-happy: MLB-record 1,135 HRs hit in May |work=ESPN |date=May 31, 2019 |access-date=July 20, 2021 }}</ref>

In postseason play, the most home runs hit by a player for a career is [[Manny Ramirez]], who hit 29. [[Jose Altuve]] (23), [[Bernie Williams]] (22), [[Derek Jeter]] (20), and [[Kyle Schwarber]] (20) are the only other players to hit twenty postseason home runs. Rounding out the top ten as of the end of the 2021 season are [[Albert Pujols]] (19), [[George Springer]] (19), [[Carlos Correa]] (18), [[Reggie Jackson]] (18), [[Mickey Mantle]] (18, all in the World Series), and [[Nelson Cruz]] (18). As for most home runs in one postseason, [[Randy Arozarena]] holds the record with ten, done in the 2020 postseason.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/Playoffs_batting.shtml | title=All-time and Single-Season Postseason Batting Leaders }}</ref>