MLB All-Time Home Run Leaders(1871-2019)

This video shows the all time home run hitters in the MLB from 1871-2019
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[@ZealKingdom]

When Babe Ruth hit his final home run, only one player had ever hit even half as many. Incredible to think about.

[@TiredEyePilot]

And now two people have hit more than him

[@ketchican]

@@TiredEyePilot one *

[@TiredEyePilot]

@Andrew S. Sorry I didn't know Barry bonds used steroids and crap at first because I know like nothing about baseball and didn't even know who he was

[@ketchican]

@@TiredEyePilot nah, I was just messing with you 😂 I personally don't call Bonds the home run king thanks to his roid use.

[@username-zj9id]

@@ketchican Aaron: 755 HR in 13941 plate appearances . Bonds: 762 HR in 12606 PA with steroids Ruth: 714 HR in 10626 plate appearances When Ruth came up, the career record was 136. Babe hit 113 his first 2 seasons as a full time position player.

[@jcb3393]

Never realized just how dominant Babe Ruth truly was, to have blown by so many others and then started at the top for 40 years after he quit. Amazing

[@CopycatColt5542]

Add in the fact that he was a top 3 pitcher his whole pitching career. Most dominant athlete vs his peers of all time.

[@briangulley6027]

In baseball the argument is, who is the second best player. Anyone who doesn't have Ruth first isn't serious. Remember he won 90 games as a pitcher, that ends the argument about who's first.

[@jerryking296]

Yeah you can really see how he left everyone in the dust.

[@johnnyturner8514]

He still would be on top if it weren't for steroids era, the babe is the GOAT by far.

[@jonesbbqfootmassage2430]

@@briangulley6027 eh baseball was way easier back then. Trout will easily be the best player by the end of his career

[@adapokemongames]

Barry Bonds really shot up there after he started eating balanced breakfasts near the end of his career

[@Memeposting]

he proved all you need are your wheaties to perform well

[@troubledsole9104]

@@Memeposting and some “juice” to start the day.

[@Memeposting]

@@troubledsole9104 yes some of the best juice ever. i gotta know the recipe for their juice

[@cadenconverse15]

After his steroids.

[@mustang8206]

Let's not act like they weren't all juicing

[@marcjohn9404]

I like how Hank Aaron's bar just slowly cuts across the screen. It doesn't shoot up there really fast like some of the others, just slowly creeps up and to the right a little bit. Again, another guy who translates to any era.

[@Jakevrana]

Hammering Hank was a model of consistency, never hit more than 44 HRs in a season, but he played so darn good for so long. A true icon of the sport, he definitely belongs in the same conversation as Ruth, and Pete rose for his hits and RBI’s. I can go all day but you get the point

[@ZealKingdom]

@@Jakevrana Aaron's career best was 47 in 1971.

[@username-zj9id]

@@Jakevrana his career high was actually 47, in 1971. Ruth hit 46 or better 9 times

[@mikelmart]

He was the model of consistency, I believe he never hit more than 47 in one year.

[@username-zj9id]

@@mikelmart he was definitely one of the most consistent hitters ever

[@the7thword]

In 1920 two things happened, the dead ball era ended and Babe Ruth switched from pitcher to outfielder.

[@michael88h]

What's dead ball era

[@nathanieldelisle425]

@@michael88h they used the same ball the entire game which is very hard

[@박경준-c6u]

Should we look at the standard of the Deadball era from when Ruth hit a home run? Or should we just look at the time when the soft ball was not used?

[@shibity]

@@michael88h they made some rule changes related to the ball (switch for fresh balls often) and changed the height of the pitchers mound. Scoring and hitting jumped immediately.

[@yankmyass]

@@michael88h they used balls made of stuff that was very hard to hit hard, and spitballs were allowed

[@cargo263]

It’s insane how babe was in the top 3 for 100years

[@username-zj9id]

He's still #3 so its going to be well over 100. I don't think Pujols would have caught him anyway, but now that he's been released, the active leader is Miguel Cabrera with less than 500. So no one is passing Ruth anytime soon.

[@dio696]

@@username-zj9id trout has a good shot

[@username-zj9id]

@@dio696 he's over 400 away. Even if he does it, it won't be anytime soon, which is what I said

[@acog_quarks8753]

Wym was? He’s still standing tall

[@robertanderson2898]

@@username-zj9id Well Pujols isn't officially retired yet, he could catch on somewhere else.

[@timorean320]

At 1 time you could say "I led the league with 4 Homer's", and that was impressive.

[@mikeyeechen1764]

Cuz it is super hard to hit a home run back then

[@CheesusChristBC201]

@@mikeyeechen1764 exactly but hey, he was #1 during those days

[@JonPITBZN]

Well, it would be a little like saying "I led the league in triples" today. It would be impressive if a guy you knew did it, but it wouldn't get you on the All-Star team. Nobody cared about homers back then.

[@Rodanguirus]

I'm not sure when exactly this applied, but having attended some "old-school rules" baseball games, I learned that a lot of 19th-century baseball didn't really have boundary lines where a ball was automatically a homer if it reached a certain distance. It was more like, if you hit it far enough that you can score before the fielders get it back to the bags, then it's a homer (and there were a lot of inside-the-park homers). So even in the instances when batters hit it the distance of what would be a modern-day homer, it wasn't necessarily a homer at the time. Also, for at least some amount of times, it counted as an out if you caught a ball after one bounce.

[@lukesteiner8934]

@@Rodanguirus the Chicago White Stockings invented that rule in 1884 but it only applied to their stadium, so they set lots of home run records, including Ned Williamson's 27 homer season

[@kylepouliot4996]

when Babe hopped onto the charts, my jaw dropped at the consistency of the progress. What an absolute monster

[@tankwfw]

And people forget he was also one of the best pitchers in baseball from 1914-1919

[@getshreked8768]

Imagine if babe took steroids lol

[@dizastaguy182]

@@getshreked8768 probably would’ve had the same stats tbh

[@TheAnimeist]

And people forget he was and is one of the best candy bars from 1921 to present.

[@MH3GL]

If you want "consistency", Hank Aaron basically hit 40 HRs, every year, for 20yrs. The man was a machine.

[@Rushmore222]

That 700 HR club is astonishing. 20 straight spring seasons saying "Yeah, I'll hit at least 35 bombs this year". Mr.Aaron's record is especially eye-popping. Even if you took all of his HRs off the board, he would still be comfortably in the 3,000 hit club.

[@Ih8liarsandusers]

Especially with that "balanced breakfast" he ate every day

[@danielmanning2319]

@@Ih8liarsandusers He’s talking about Hank Aaron not Barry Bonds

[@iankeogh2344]

His consistency was remarkable. He basically had an 18-year peak, while most ballplayers have about a 7-8 year peak.

[@abebuenodemesquita8111]

and for babe ruth to do what he did with what he did to his body and spending the first few years of his career as a pitcher in the dead ball era and still being good enough at hitting homers to be switched to outfield

[@jeremygeller9145]

@TheSportsGuru wish granted

[@prettyjaysays]

You know what amazes me is that even with 714 home runs Babe Ruth still maintained a .342 lifetime batting average.

[@Ivan-xy3ws]

Jesus fuck!

[@Kaiserboo1871]

That dude was an absolute legend. Easily the greatest baseball player of all time. Hank Aaron is fantastic, but Babe could do what Aaron did + excel at a whole lot of other things (like pitching).

[@bobby1602]

he also pitched

[@RaphaelBas1995]

With a career high of .393 as well.

[@lukesteiner8934]

And he was an ace pitcher who won an ERA title, and still managed the amount of home runs he did even though for 4 years he didn't really hit.

[@drew9597]

Babe Ruth: "Nice place you got here. Don't mind if I do"

[@warlordofbritannia]

The Lou Gehrig bar hits deep man - it keeps going up and up and then stops like it hit a brick wall Press F to pay respects, indeed

[@DaDitka]

He easily gets to 600 HR if he hadn't gotten sick. Maybe even 700? Who knows?

[@OccasionalNASCARRaces]

@@DaDitka No way. He was 37 when he got sick.

[@DaDitka]

@@OccasionalNASCARRaces You may be right, but I still think 600 was attainable. We'll sadly never know.

[@dominicpardo4783]

ALS is a horrific disease.

[@mramisuzuki6962]

@@OccasionalNASCARRaces He hit 29 home runs with ALS.

[@76JStucki]

Can we all admire the near-perfect consistency of Aaron's career? That bar moves at almost exactly the same speed the entire time.

[@trapnug2626]

Hank & Babe are the real home run kings to me .

[@dizastaguy182]

they are good but Bonds is my HR king #goat #bonds756

[@boejar]

@@dizastaguy182 bonds will forever be tainted. True MLB fans do not consider him the homerun king.

[@dio696]

@@boejar people who consider themselves true fans and disregard others because of their opinions on the subject are really just elitists

[@boejar]

@@dio696 lol so I guess both sides see themselves as elitists then huh? Cause the same can be applied to those who just feel they are right because its coming out of their minds.

[@dylangregory9855]

Barry Bonds is only on top because of the Roids. Ruth and Aaron are the true kings of baseball

[@flame-sky7148]

I never thought about. how Gehrig was 2nd behind Ruth all time in HR for a while until he stop playing and his death. He would have had at least 600 plus. Two guys from the same team, so unfair.

[@almightyprime162]

Such is life

[@flame-sky7148]

​@@almightyprime162 You are probably right, to have Ruth, Gehrig , DiMaggio, then Mantle. I guess that's why empires existed and reigned over nations.

[@AverageLeagueHack]

There was no amateur draft. If you could find a guy and sign him that was it. No structure to generate equality.

[@username-zj9id]

@@flame-sky7148 they won 20 championships in the 48 year span of those players careers with the Yankees (1920-1968)

[@hennylo68]

Plus the race for 61 was between 2 Yankee teammates also. Before Big Mac and Sosa summer of 98 chasing Roger Marris 61 homeruns, in 1961 Roger Marris and Mickey Mantle were neck and neck chasing Babe's 60 homerun record which Roger Marris eventually got.

[@mercurydylan899]

And for one shining year, Lip Pile was immortal, Ruthian, in his dominance of the record books.

[@chriswebster24]

Most people don’t know this, but Lip was actually his real name. People have always assumed that it was just a nickname, because, ironically, he had humongous lips. When he was growing up, he was often teased for having “a pile of lip.” Before he became famous, people who didn’t know him would sometimes refer to him as the lip pile, before they had ever even heard anyone else call him that. Baseball historians believe that most of his success at hitting home runs was due to pitchers of his era being so stunned by the size of his lips that they’d lose concentration, and he was great at making them pay for it. Lots of times, Lip would pucker up in the batter’s box and smooch at the pitchers, and it would intimidate them. Then, he’d swing for the fences, and usually hit a home run. For the last half of his career, he actually held the bat with his lips instead of his hands, and he hit more homers than ever using this new technique. Most people don’t even know anything about this, which is a shame, but it’s really not too much of a surprise, though, because I just made it all up.

[@username-zj9id]

Not that immortal, since you got his name wrong

[@mercurydylan899]

Lol touché

[@Phield_Trip]

@@chriswebster24 very interesting you should write a story about that

[@bezllama3325]

@@chriswebster24 I've never heard that! Thanks for sharing!

[@roberthanson6156]

Wow Ruth held the HR record from 1920-1974. For 54 years he held the record.

[@adiscordmemer1662]

Barry Bonds is 56 years old

[@roberthanson6156]

@@adiscordmemer1662 so he basically held the record Bonds whole life

[@AdmiralYeager]

And Hank still holds it to this day

[@peterhazelton14]

@@AdmiralYeager negative.

[@roberthanson6156]

@@AdmiralYeager yes screw Bonds and his steroid cheating ass

[@xen60xen]

I’m so happy I was able to watch Pujols break 700 homers in his final season back with the cards. Definitely my favorite ball player of all time.

[@HealingMusiciansLaunchcast]

Wow in the YEAR 2000 a bunch of guys started “eating their Wheaties” - Hank is the real champ

[@dutchie1010]

no offense to your story but there are folks that make a case for aaron "eating some wheaties" in his latter years as well.......im not saying he did but nobody knows what is really happening out there

[@schulzz1100]

@@dutchie1010 you’re totally a bonds fan lmao

[@dutchie1010]

@@schulzz1100 im a baseball fan. there is evidence that even the great aaron may have dabbled in some mexican supplements in his day.

[@schulzz1100]

@@dutchie1010 just looked up the “evidence,” bro this is some conspiracy theory shit that was put together by bonds enthusiasts. Aaron didn’t do anything and was tested throughout his career.

[@dutchie1010]

@@schulzz1100 well some would say the same thing about bonds on steroids. i think he was on them, there is still as much proof for him on steroids as ol hank aaron. they tried to prove it and couldnt. so what your saying really doesnt mean a thing. it literally has as much merrit as proving bonds was on them. one guy said he was and there was and still is no proof. i was not accusing hank aaron. there was some old players that talked about it. still no proof on either. just hear say. mlb tried to nail bonds to the wall in a court of law but lost........hate it as you will this is facts

[@seanwalters1977]

The ominous music when McGwire and Bonds appear lol

[@countergravity6371]

Yep, the maker should have put asterisks by both their names.

[@IIIJDubsIII]

Lolol the music was even juiced up

[@juhbell]

And arod and maybe sosa

[@jbbeats2042]

Bonds will never be passed

[@greenfroppy212]

@@jbbeats2042 *Hank Aaron

[@thewingedwheelwarrior2206]

We salute those who have given us the greatest memories in MLB history

[@Gambit08]

Pretty cool and interesting seeing some of the players stats freeze around the same time as WWII

[@michaell874]

Incredibly how 9 of the top 15 all time home run leaders played during the Steroids Era.

[@crosh3301]

Not incredible makes sense what? Sarcastic?

[@hennylo68]

I mean 6 Puhols, 7 Griffey and 8 Thome were all clean.

[@m.a.c.8366]

thanks Sports Stats, the fluid graph is the perfect way to present these stats across so many years.

[@pamelaszymanski5501]

RIP Hank Aaron, The true homerun king

[@Cho-pk5zs]

Pretty amazing Babe is still top three after 80+ years.

[@Andrew-Guitar]

Griffey Jr. definitely would’ve become the home run king if he wasn’t injured all the time

[@v3gravity535]

Ya and where’s mike trout

[@Andrew-Guitar]

@@v3gravity535 He is wayyyyyy wayyyyyy lower on the list. Mike only has 310 homers. And that's in 2021 not 2019

[@TalksOfLife1]

@@v3gravity535 bro Mike only has 310 home runs. It’ll take him years to get more home runs. Honestly he might not even pass Ruth

[@talhakarsloglu4278]

@@TalksOfLife1 He will pass 700 for sure. He is just too consistent.

[@boosie6107]

Most beautiful swing ever

[@73challenger5031]

Man. I love the way these graphs are presented! Keep it up!

[@dave929]

Fun seeing how low the numbers were at one point. Nine homers in a season led the entire league.

[@dave929]

@Edward StevenetteBeer and hot dogs. Maybe they were spikes with their version of ‘roids. 😁😁😁

[@AverageLeagueHack]

The ball was changed after the Black Sox scandal hence the term dead ball era.

[@dave929]

@@AverageLeagueHack I was aware of that - I just meant that was (supposedly) Ruth’s diet. Popeye had his spinach, and Ruth had beer and hot dogs.

[@jerrybrownell3633]

@Dave TheRave- Ty Cobb won The Triple Crown in 1909 with 9 home runs. 5 of them were inside the park home runs.

[@kevinlerch5354]

If Babe Ruth had played in as many games as the others above him in this list, he would of had well over 800 home runs. There is our home run king.

[@stevenathanassopoulos695]

If he played in modern times he’d be garbage

[@claudineg6870]

Never guts like Walter Johnson wee clocked at 101mph in 1920. Babe would dominate were today’s training methods and nutrition

[@bezllama3325]

@@stevenathanassopoulos695 he would've adjusted, all athletes do, he hit 29 homers off of guys throwing Spitters and shiners

[@raurmanproductions3438]

@@stevenathanassopoulos695 Naive

[@nevergonnabesilent]

Hank Aaron is still the record holder to me. No juice needed

[@landshark1191]

Except that he took amphetamines

[@adamrasmussen1839]

@@landshark1191 you realize that amphetamines don't enhance a player's ability...

[@armyofachievers8766]

No Fun either. Never had an excited 50 home run season. Nobody ever hangout in the streets or ocean to catch a baseball.

[@FerdinandCesarano]

Boooooo to you.

[@phoenixgamer3480]

@@armyofachievers8766 He did have several 40 home run seasons, though.

[@JBoles-pb9nc]

Beautiful video. Well done!!!! I never saw the record this way in my mind. Thank you for this!

[@richardoconnor2560]

No player has had a greater impact on the sport than Babe Ruth, performance-wise. THAT can not ever be taken from him.

[@TheImapotato]

People often forget that Roger Connor was HR king for 25 years

[@GrinderCB]

It's unknown how many walkoff homers the Babe hit where a man on base scored the game winning run. He'd touch first base and then go to the dugout as the game was over. The stats from that era count them as game-winning hits, not home runs. Some estimates are that he hit about 50-60 of them over his career, which would bring his total up to 764-ish.

[@Wyok-ut8si]

This music finna make me cry bro

[@willowandluka5302]

I thought people were going years without hitting a home run before I realized that they were just done playing

[@el_puma_real]

The number of home runs that Barry Bonds hit during his 22-year career is astounding. Forget the ‘steroid’ talk for a moment, and consider how insanely unbelievable his statistical output truly was. Bonds averaged 34.6 home runs per season throughout his career. The duration with which he performed (pre and post controversy) is unrivaled.

[@Argyle302]

For the last several years that Barry played, all it took was one swing per at bat, if the pitcher made a mistake, he hit it over the fence. Phenomenal eye to hand coordination.

[@jaymike3302]

He stunk in the playoffs though.

[@JayTeeAyy]

I’d like to imagine them saying “hey, I’m walkin here” everytime the person got passed up 😂

[@bezllama3325]

Lmao!

[@yrf2643]

Love how the music tone changes when Bonds just skyrockets up to the top of the leaderboard.

[@chriscoulter6089]

Hank Aaron is the REAL Home Run king. Bonds was on steroids.

[@wolfganglandau3978]

Faaaacccts. Although it is crazy to think that Babe Ruth never played in as many games in a regular season as Hank Aaron cause seasons were shorter back then. Just makes you think how many more would Babe Ruth have hit.

[@kenhernandez8128]

Ruth

[@Random_person27]

dosent mean he wasnt good at swinging the bat

[@wolfganglandau3978]

@@Random_person27 and? You can be good at swinging the bat but not hit a lot of home runs. The only reason Bonds is at the top is because of the roids, without them he wouldn’t of hit nearly as many home runs as he did with

[@Random_person27]

@@wolfganglandau3978 roids dont affect youre swing bed

[@jamar2349]

Imagine what Ted Williams numbers would have been had he not left MLB twice. Once for WWII and once for the Korean War.

[@bezllama3325]

He was legit the best LF every full season he played except for 1959

[@thedude3065]

I likw how you can pinpoint the years in which Williams went to war based on the pause

[@johnnymac6178]

He missed 5 total seasons between WW2 and Korea! He was batting like .400 in those years too!

[@patrickstasyszyn291]

@@johnnymac6178 That guy was hilarious. Batted like 340 in his final season when he was like 43 and literally quit because as he stated "baseball isn't a challenge"

[@TalksOfLife1]

@@patrickstasyszyn291 he was a f*cking god bro. Imagine quitting because you are too goated at baseball

[@username-zj9id]

@@patrickstasyszyn291 he hit .316 his final year.

[@MajesticMFalkor]

When Bonds, Big Mac and Sosa were playing that was the best. I honestly don’t care if they used steroids it was really fun watching them

[@johndoe3563]

When baseball was at its best

[@bobby1602]

Imagine if babe ruth played with modern balls and rules. he would have had a additional 100 home runs from the the foul pole rule alone.

[@bezllama3325]

He also missed a few because some walkoffs didn't count

[@richardsoult5678]

I had no idea i would enjoy that so much but wow absolutely fantastic.

[@tankwfw]

Babe Ruth broke the career HR record in only his second position playing season. He then went on to break his own record 576 times and by the time he retired, the next closest (Lou Gehrig) had half the number he did.

[@DeosPraetorian]

Well to be fair Lou would have been a lot closer if he hadn't died

[@tankwfw]

@@DeosPraetorian to be fair, Lou's final season was at age 36. I dont think he would have hit significantly more

[@abebuenodemesquita8111]

@@tankwfw but he wouild have hit 500 at least

[@Matt-wf7ry]

Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron holding their respective home run records for over 50+ years is incredibly impressive. Yes - I don't count Bonds HR record at all. Without the injuries I think Griffey Jr. would have had an amazing chance to get the record. As for an all around best player - Hank Aaron and Willie Mays are on par with each other. Both had great defense, great speed and amazing power. Everything you could ever want.

[@mustang8206]

This puts into perspective how amazing Babe Ruth truly was. How many sports record manage to last for 50 years? Think of many players spent their entire childhood dreaming of being Babe Ruth only to spend their entire career falling short

[@jaquanjohnson3452]

It’s hard to get to where that at as of now players are more athletic meaning there able to steal homer’s from people now

[@seanc7342]

@@jaquanjohnson3452 and pitchers are stronger than ever

[@seanc7342]

Babe wasn't even the most athletic person

[@JK-Alabama11k]

@@seanc7342 he the best

[@seanc7342]

@@JK-Alabama11k I know. Just imagine what he could of accomplished if he was a chubby alcoholic. Love the Babe

[@jimmysgarage9068]

Man, there will never be a pro athlete that was head over heels better than EVERYONE else like Babe Ruth was. Wow.

[@kylefarr3655]

Don Hutson? Perhaps watch the NFL receiving yards all time leaders vid...

[@jimmysgarage9068]

@@kylefarr3655 Will do!

[@timburke8855]

Wayne Gretzky was so dominant that even if he never scored a goal in his entire NHL career he would still be the all time leader in points (goals and assists combined). He also amazed 200+ points in a single season 4 times. No one else has 1 season doing that. Countless records including single season goals, points, career points, career goals, career assists, career points per game, single season points per game, etc etc. I think you can at least have an argument about which player is the GOAT in every sport, except hockey.

[@jasonlommen4769]

@@timburke8855 I agree 100%. The great one was truly amazing.

[@nicholasschroeder3678]

He was amazing, but Cobb was no less amazing: look at his stats. He was as dominant in the teens as Ruth was in the 20s. And the ball really was dead before Ruth came along. That said, Cobb remained one of the best in the game through the 20s into his early 40s. At the plate, I'd put him, Ruth, and Williams at a tie.

[@jimmysgarage9068]

Dude, GREAT channel. I see you getting to 100K subscribers this year, and getting some of that KZbin MONEY!

[@vanmueller149]

The craziest part of babe Ruth’s success is that when he was hitting all his home runs the balls weren’t juiced the bats weren’t as powerful and the players weren’t in as great shape as they are now. So he was just pure raw talent. Amazing

[@hennylo68]

Plus the ballparks weren't as tiny as they are now. Way harder to hit a homerun in those stadiums they played in back then.

[@abebuenodemesquita8111]

and he was a pticher for several years and good at it. he lead the al in era in 1916 with an era of 1.75 and a career era of 2.28. also his batting average is over .340 which is tenth place of all time. the man was a good pitcher, the best slugger, and the tenth best average hitter of all time. and people try to argue that he isnt the goat

[@paulg6274]

Pitchers threw like 82mph also

[@gemnifan6045]

He also played in alot fewer games they only played 140 then I believe

[@itsBayFreshALLday]

& drugs whichever they may be weren't even regulated.....what an era for baseball ~~~

[@marcanthony7020]

Amazing that the babe outlasted every generation. And he was an elite pitcher, too! What an absolute monster.

[@marcjohn9404]

For all of the praise Babe Ruth gets about his power swing, nobody talks about early 1920s Babe Ruth who was fast, and was one of the best outfielders. He was the real deal, probably could have had an even longer period of success if he didn't start partying and getting fat. That's scary to think about, but it's true. He's so good that he translates to the modern age even, I have no doubt he would still be a perennial MVP if he played today. Dude showed everyone how baseball was supposed to be played.

[@lanesilva9234]

Plus the size of the fields they played on back then

[@jonncockrell3606]

Dont forget the Babe was a 20 game winning per season pitcher before it was realised that he was a HR hitter. He also was a winning starting pitcher in multiple World Series games. Babe Ruth was/is the Greatest Baseball Player of All Time. My opinion.

[@DaDitka]

If memory serves, he is one of around 50-60 players in the whole history of the game to have stolen home ten times or more in a career.

[@paulg6274]

If you time machined him to today there's no way he'd be an MVP--pitchers are so much better now its insane, he wouldnt adjust easily. but if he was born in 1990 or whatever, ya he'd be MVP level

[@kyndread71]

Babe started as a pitcher. THAT is crazy to think about.

[@pikestance4219]

Babe Ruth was the man! He was not only a dominant player but the fortunes of two clubs were impacted for generations.

[@9Ballr]

Henry Louis Aaron, the all time home run king!

[@dizastaguy182]

no that’s Barry Bonds

[@johnroby6524]

@@dizastaguy182 Nah, it's Hammerin' Hank. Bonds is tainted.

[@carlstair4863]

No its Ruth. Aaron needed 4k more at bats and bonds needed juice, juiced balls, juiced bats, smaller fences, laser eye surgery and who knows what else

[@Alex-mm5xh]

@@carlstair4863 longevity is part of getting career records though. It doesn't matter how many at bats it took, it only matters how many homers he hit

[@carlstair4863]

@@Alex-mm5xh I don't believe that. Maybe more Homers but not the home run king. I mean according to your logic Eddie Murray is a better home run hitter then gehrig or dimaggio. If you look at hr per ab. World series homeruns. Homeruns in big spots. Complete dominance over their career it's not even close. Aaron wasn't even the best player of his Era. Mantle and mays were better homerun hitters and better all around players.

[@dadgonegamer2654]

And seemingly out of the shadows in 1920 some random kid named Babe Ruth rockets to the top of the leaderboard and stays there for half a century and remains in the top three 100 years later.

[@jared-escobar]

babe ruth had the HR record by ~200 home runs for ~30 years. That will never ever ever be repeated

[@davidd5712]

People don’t realize how good of a player was. He was an outstanding fielder. Greatest home run hitter of all time he had 11 seasons with 40 or more home runs He was a outstanding pitcher He even pitched a shit out in the World Series Greatest player of all time

[@zachgilbert3815]

"he even pitched a shit out" lol

[@crazypomp927]

It was kinda crazy seeing when it hit the dead ball era and the list just stopped moving and barely changed for like 20 years.

[@geoffmarshall6925]

Relatively unknown fact: Harmon Killebrew; who is 12th all-time in homers at this moment in time; is the silhouette of the MLB logo. Everyone knows Jerry West but not as many know this one

[@kamtheman9952]

Thats interesting because ive always pictured the logo as a righty when in reality it is a lefty

[@Jakevrana]

Well dang, I consider myself a baseball fanatic and did not know that, thanks for the tidbit. (Also I’m a southpaw so that’s a little ego boost )

[@josevitorino1533]

@@kamtheman9952 It was made to look like both a righty and a lefty, like an optical illusion.

[@Bugkillahz]

You left off the asterisk after Bonds.

[@philly799]

Barry Bonds* and Alex Rodriguez* sure hit a lot of home runs. Even more than Mark McGwire* and Sammy Sosa*

[@hyzercreek]

I see what you did there*

[@plmintexas509]

@@hyzercreek Me too*

[@adamrasmussen1839]

Ha! Very clever.

[@bravetitangrizzly]

Getting to break records before black people were allowed to play. Excuse me, where is that asterisk? I'd love to know how many homers the babe would've hit had CC been throwing 92 mile an hour sliders.

[@Synndrax]

@@bravetitangrizzly Oh find something else to be mad about. Let's put a pitcher from the turn of the millennium against a hitter from WW1 - the Great Depression. How are you people even able to operate a keyboard when you're that stupid?

[@bman7452]

Awesome...love the way PEDa speed things up

[@PursuasivePlays]

When you so flipping good that your top 3 still almsot 90 years later

[@JoeRussellProductions]

Cool chart! Thanks for making it. I would like to see an asterisk next to the known cheaters though.

[@shaserdeses]

Ruth ended that deadball era from 1900-1919 amazing to see!

[@abebuenodemesquita8111]

no he didnt. the dead ball era ended because someone died after getting hit by a pitch that they couldnt see because the ball was so scuffed and dirty. babe ruth ended the dead ball era mentality.

[@fenfool]

Thank you for this, this is really cool!

[@AJMyersOfficial]

Lou Gehrig what an underrated legend

[@hot2warm]

great video. One major improvement would be a to denote when the dead ball era ended and when the live ball era began. A color change to the background and a notation of the era would be all that's needed.

[@txaggievet]

Never Heard of Jimmie Foxx, but damn, he held that #2 spot for a long time and even into the 2000s he was still top 20

[@CronoXpono]

Look him up, prodigious power at first. Dude was a monster!

[@johncassani6780]

Ted Williams considered him the greatest right handed hitter of all time. He was immense. He held the Red Sox single season record for homers until David Ortiz broke it, and that wasn’t even his best season, as he had hit 58 in a season with Philadelphia.

[@CronoXpono]

@@johncassani6780 guy was amazing. So much power but so much contact too, he wasn’t leading the league in strikeouts. Different breed back then!

[@Film-Watcher12]

He’s honestly pretty underrated from that era. I just see people talk about Ruth and Gehrig, but never about Foxx for some reason.

[@rainsinz]

The bar barely moved in the 90s. Meaning players from the later 70s and early 80s weren't reaching those milestones.

[@kevinwright5106]

Hank is still king. I can't see it any other way.

[@joshuabornagain4670]

True MLB All-Time Home Run Leaders: 1. Hank Aaron 2. Babe Ruth 3. Willie Mays 4. Albert Pujols 5. Ken Griffey Jr. * PED players are disqualified from the list.

[@dizastaguy182]

bonds is the HR king

[@jacksonmavrides7695]

@@joshuabornagain4670 Albert over willie mays

[@shaungriffin9923]

@@dizastaguy182 nope

[@jared-escobar]

insane that babe ruth is STILL 3RD ALL TIME TO THIS DAY. Griffey, A-Rod, Pujols, all had 100 years to surpass him and still couldn't. Ruth is the absolute GOAT (Griffey is my favorite player btw)

[@pikespice]

I would have loved to see what a home run looked like in the 1800s. Since they were so rare, the crowd must have gone bonkers regardless of which side you were cheering for.

[@humanomoly9620]

My god it took Babe Ruth all of 2 fucking seasons in this video to get the damn record.

[@heidibenner1577]

Hank Aaron, the true home run king

[@nickhawdon9139]

As a die-hard Lip Pike fan I really thought this video was gonna go a different direction

[@pitbull113]

Babe Ruth was hitting as many home runs as some teams were hitting. Ruth will always be the GOAT as far as home runs is concerned.

[@bravetitangrizzly]

Getting to break record before black people were allowed to play. Excuse me, where is that asterisk? I'd love to know how many homers the babe would've hit had CC been throwing 92 mile an hour sliders.

[@darkkaze13]

@@bravetitangrizzly so, should we throw out the numbers of hank aaron and willie mays? after all, japanese players couldn't play so those shouldn't count either. throw out the stats after players didn't ride trains across country or had modern equipment too. or when the ballparks were larger. or they didn't play in colorado where the balls fly.

[@thecensoredmuscle563]

@@bravetitangrizzly what asterisk? Like qb, blacks are very rarely great at pitching.

[@josephvanhorn5347]

Hank Aaron is the true home run king. I could go on all day about how unbelievable his career was and bust out all kinds of numbers that prove my point but that would bore people who aren’t stat junkies like me. Here are just a few numbers that I think quickly show how great of a hitter Hank Aaron was... - He hit between 38-45 home runs 10 times in the 17 seasons from his age 23 season to his age 39 season. He hit between 29-34 five times, a low of 24 once, and hit his career high 47 bombs in 1971 at age 37. - His 2 career best seasons in OBP, Slugging, and OPS were 1971 and 1973. His age 37 and 39 seasons. - He set a career high for walks (92) in 1972 at age 38. He struck out just 55 times that season. - He hit a home run in 8.2% and 8.6% of his PA’s in 1971 and ‘73 at ages 37 and 39. He didn’t crack a 7.0% home run rate in any other season. He walked at the highest rate of his career at age 38 and homered at the highest rate at age 39. He wasn’t in steroids. He was Hank f******** Aaron. It’s lunacy that he won only one MVP. He finished 3rd in MVP voting six times.

[@zacka6226]

1871-1900 was interesting to see. As much as baseball is about history, I had never heard of Lip Pike before. But he was once homerun king. I learned from this that there was something before the deadball era. Those pre 1900 guys weren't putting up Babe Ruth numbers, but they were hitting more homers than guys from 1900-1918 were. Probably hitting honeruns back before there were even fences to hit them over. You probably needed a combination of power and speed, and weak outfielders back then.

[@ShinyHubCaps]

I like how the music got more dramatic and despairing during the steroid era

[@edewow1959]

Babe Ruth was the Wilt Chamberlain of the baseball. Dominant indeed.

[@hennylo68]

He was Wilt and Russell all rolled in one. Wilts numbers and Russell's rings.

[@Milnard]

@@hennylo68 yes

[@paulg6274]

His feats were more impressive than Wilts I think

[@thunderousooner527]

Do not put babe Ruth was Wilt Chamberlain. Wilt Chamberlain was the Babe Ruth of basketball. It’s the other way around.

[@joeg5414]

100 years after he started playing and I think it's fair to say babe ruth is still the most recognized name in sports

[@loser99134]

Babe Ruth ain’t have to snap like that😂😂😂

[@bravetitangrizzly]

“I wonder how many homers the babe would’ve hit had CC been throwing him 92mph sliders”

[@chrissywoozie9047]

@@bravetitangrizzly probably nothing in hes time thay where throwing 60

[@mikeshannon1452]

@@chrissywoozie9047 if he was born in 1990 and had proper modern training he’d still be HOF

[@SuspiciousWalrus9999]

@@mikeshannon1452 we dont know that. All we can do is accept he was the best of his time

[@hennylo68]

@@bravetitangrizzly Probably still over 700. People swear it was easier to hit back then yet forget the 2nd leader in homeruns behind Ruth was 19 to low 20's in the same year Babe was putting up 50 homeruns year. There were a few seasons where Babe hit more homeruns than entire teams. So if it was so easy to hit and pitching was so bad, why weren't other players close to what Babe was doing.

[@brockkies8566]

Babe Ruth grabs ahold in 1921 and says I think I'll hold onto this for about 53 years. Thanks guys

[@davidmccann9811]

I know nothing about baseball, but I find it amazing that after 100 years Babe Ruth is still near the top. I wonder what his total would be if he were around today with modern training and equipment.

[@blackbeardsghost6588]

When Hank Aaron's number stopped at 755, I stopped the video.

[@zappucci]

Guess who led their league in homeruns the second most times (after Ruth of course)... Mike Schmidt with 8 times leading the NL in HR. Amazing. That's dominant in an era without a ton of power.

[@hugopirela5694]

MLB: U LIKE HITTIN HOMERS? RUTH: YES. MLB: HOW MANY? RUTH: YES.

[@Mathias-so8rw]

5:24 - enter steroid era 😒. The fact babe Ruth dominated his era and finished in the top 3 *even 100 years later shows how great he ways. I say he’s top 2 because Barry bonds was juicing

[@username-zj9id]

I agree about Bonds, and then you look a little closer and see that Aaron hit 41 more homeruns in 3000 more plate appearances. If Ruth had quit pitching 1 season earlier or 2 at most, he's still #1

[@Kaiserboo1871]

@@username-zj9id Ruth was the GOAT of baseball, being the home run king for decades after his retirement + being a god like pitcher (which is something not even Hank Aaron could do [maybe, I don’t know anything about Hank Aaron’s pitching career if he had one]) he has more than earned that title.

[@jake-lz9ol]

the craziest thing to is babe started out as a pitcher but stopped because he wanted to hit more

[@michaelulbricht9438]

Babe was one of the best pitchers of all time, too, before he became a full time outfielder. He stole home 10 times, and saved baseball!

[@Kaiserboo1871]

So he was a GOAT at both offense and defense.

[@rla1000]

Hank Aaron, the true all-time HR leader.

[@matthewvecellio6816]

It will always be hank Aaron. The cheaters shouldn't be allowed anything in the record books and barred from the HOF!

[@MaddSweetGT500]

I think Babe would be well into 1000 Homers if he hadn't pitched at all and went straight into crushing that ball.

[@jackblasbalg7936]

imagine if Mickey Mantle had functional knees.

[@sammyweed4771]

Ted Williams missed 5 primes years to the service, image his totals, thanks for your service and awesome career.

[@flame-sky7148]

I know he would have had over 700. The knees and the alcohol, man it stinks.

[@jackblasbalg7936]

@@sammyweed4771 both mantle and williams would be well over 700 homers and probably 3000 hits

[@bravetitangrizzly]

Imagine if black people were allowed to play back then

[@flame-sky7148]

@@bravetitangrizzly Look at what they did when they entered the league. And I'm not talking about Mays, Aaron, Frank Robinson, Banks. I'm talking about Jackie Robinson leading the League in WAR (1949, 1951, 1952) Larry Doby leading in offensive WAR (1950, 1952). And these were the first two blacks that entered MLB.

[@frankoconnell6745]

What an amazing gem of a channel! 👍🏼

[@dh3279]

And STILL the all-time Home Run king . . . . Hank Aaron!!

[@chriswebster24]

Nah you must not have watched until the end. He’s in 2nd place now.

[@geoffmarshall6925]

Yes he is. Bonds, Sosa, Mcgwire, and A-Rod all probably would have been on this list anyways but I can't recognize them without an asterisk because of what they did.

[@dh3279]

@@geoffmarshall6925 Exactly!

[@Steve_williamson02]

If they knew it wasn’t allowed they wouldn’t have done it. Simple. It was allowed when they were playing so I think he has the right to be in second behind bonds

[@dh3279]

@@Steve_williamson02 Wrong on both counts.

[@sanchezjr13]

A few of these guys just injected themselves to the top of the list!