Home Run Records

Wondering who holds the highest home run records from in the Major League Baseball Association? The home run records are full of baseball history, nostalgia, and fun facts. A home run is defined as a hit in which the batter scores by running every base and crossing  home plate in one single play, with no  fielding error occurring.  The top five home run records are listed below, as of the 2011 Major League Baseball preseason.

1. Barry Lamar Bonds. Barry Lamar Bonds played from 1986 to 2007, for the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants. He holds many record breaking titles, but his home run record of 762 puts him at the top of the home run record list. He is also has a record-setting seven Most Valuable Player awards, a 14-time All-Star player.
2. Hank Aaron.  Living in a time where he was under scrutiny and bigotry, and even death treats from people who did not want to see a black man break Babe Ruth’s record. Hank Aaron needed to produce under enormous pressure. On April 8, 1974, with the stadium attendance for the Atlanta Braves in a record attendance, Aaron cracked career home run number 715, breaking Ruth’s home run record.  Hank Aaron ended his career with a home run record of 755.
3. Babe Ruth. George Herman Ruth, Jr. was best known as "Babe" Ruth.  Ruth played with the Red Sox’s, the Yankees and the Braves. Ruth is perhaps the greatest known baseball player of all time.  Ruth was the first player to hold the home runs record by hit 60 home runs in one season. Ruth's lifetime total of 714 home runs at his retirement in 1935 was a home run record for over 39 years. He led the league in home runs during a season twelve times.
4. Willie Mays. Willie Mays played for the New York and San Francisco Giants and New York Mets.  Mays has many home run records. Mays hit 50 or more home runs in both 1955 and 1965. This time span represents the longest stretch between 50 plus home run seasons for any player in MLB history. Mays is the only Major League player to have hit a home run in every inning from the 1st through the 16th. Mays won two MVP awards and tied the record of 24 trips to the All-Star Game. He ended his career with a home run record of 660, third when he retired, and now fourth of all-time.
5. Ken Griffey Jr . George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.  played for the Seattle Mariners the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox. He is the recipient of 10 Gold Glove awards.  Additionally he  played in 13 All-Star games. On September 1, 2009, Griffey made his home run record at 621 at the new Yankee Stadium. It also marked the 44th different stadium Griffey hit a home run Griffey retired in June of 2010.