Hank Aaron | 755 | 1 |
Babe Ruth | 714 | 2 |
Willie Mays | 660 | 3 |
Ken Griffey, Jr. | 630 | 4 |
Jim Thome | 612 | 5 |
Frank Robinson | 586 | 6 |
Harmon Killebrew | 573 | 7 |
Reggie Jackson | 563 | 8 |
Mike Schmidt | 548 | 9 |
Mickey Mantle | 536 | 10 |
Jimmie Foxx | 534 | 11 |
Willie McCovey | 521 | 12 |
Frank Thomas | 521 | 13 |
Ted Williams | 521 | 14 |
Ernie Banks | 512 | 15 |
Eddie Mathews | 512 | 16 |
Mel Ott | 511 | 17 |
Albert Pujols | 510 | 18 |
Eddie Murray | 504 | 19 |
Lou Gehrig | 493 | 20 |
Fred McGriff | 493 | |
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014
The True All-Time Dinger List
As we mark the anniversary of the day Hank Aaron passed Babe Ruth's career HR record with #715, I will make the claim that the ranking of the all-time leaders has really not changed all that much since, even allowing for the tentative addition of steroid-era players not publicly linked to PEDs (though one has to wonder about, for example, Griffey's sudden power exploits at the apex of the scandal). So here's the true top 19, and you can see the gaps where cheaters were deleted.
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Absent his premature illness and death, Gehrig ends up near 600 HR and even nearer the top in runs and RBIs. Yet his tragic end made him legendary.
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