How do today's sluggers compare against yesterdays?
By
John Dewan
March 22, 2005
61...70...73. That's a lot of homers, but how does it compare to the Babe?
Roger Maris, Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds set their own home run records, but Babe Ruth will always be the standard. Not only did the Babe lead his league in home runs twelve times, but in two different seasons (1920 and 1927) he had more home runs than any other team as a whole in the American League.
He also holds the seven highest percentages of total home runs hit in a season in baseball (since 1919). Here is the top ten list along with rankings for Maris, McGwire and Bonds:
Year
Player
Home Runs
Percentage of Total MLB Homers
1.
1920
Babe Ruth
54
8.6%
2.
1927
Babe Ruth
60
6.5%
3.
1919
Babe Ruth
29
6.5%
4.
1921
Babe Ruth
59
6.3%
5.
1926
Babe Ruth
47
5.5%
6.
1924
Babe Ruth
46
5.1%
7.
1928
Babe Ruth
54
4.9%
8.
1933
Jimmie Foxx
48
4.5%
9.
1931
Babe Ruth
46
4.3%
10.
1931
Lou Gehrig
46
4.3%
...
43.
1961
Roger Maris
61
2.2%
72.
1998
Mark McGwire
70
1.4%
74.
2002
Barry Bonds
73
1.3%
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