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UNHWildCats
June 10th, 2006, 08:26 AM
Who holds the record for most career baseball home runs?
TheValleyRaider
June 10th, 2006, 08:32 AM
Oh (blanking on the first name)
UNHWildCats
June 10th, 2006, 08:39 AM
:P very good, i was expecting a few people to ignore the fact that i didnt say MLB but u got it. Sadaharu Oh of the Japan Baseball League has 868 career homers.

Wanna take a crack at single season record now? lol
blackfordpu
June 10th, 2006, 09:32 AM
the recognized or unrecognized record?
UNHWildCats
June 10th, 2006, 11:44 AM
most homeruns in a season from any top tier baseball league, that of course excludes minor league ball.
ngineer
June 10th, 2006, 01:15 PM
Unofficially, Josh Gibson.
UNHWildCats
June 10th, 2006, 01:41 PM
Unofficially, Josh Gibson.


Well done, and I for one would rather recognize his total of Steroid Bonds :-D
blackfordpu
June 10th, 2006, 11:16 PM
Well done, and I for one would rather recognize his total of Steroid Bonds :-D

Was that the guy fron the negro leagues that hit something like 989 homers?
ngineer
June 11th, 2006, 04:20 PM
Was that the guy fron the negro leagues that hit something like 989 homers?

The one and only. Those players who had the opportunity to see Gibson play say he was far and away the superior hitter. One HOF member, name escapes me, I remember in an interview said the sound coming from Gibson's bat was the same he heard from only one player in the 4 decades of being around baseball, and that was Babe Ruth.
Gil Dobie
June 11th, 2006, 05:02 PM
The one and only. Those players who had the opportunity to see Gibson play say he was far and away the superior hitter. One HOF member, name escapes me, I remember in an interview said the sound coming from Gibson's bat was the same he heard from only one player in the 4 decades of being around baseball, and that was Babe Ruth.

Buck O'Neil was the player. He also said Bo Jackson's bat made the same sound.
HiHiYikas
June 11th, 2006, 09:59 PM
Buck O'Neil was the player. He also said Bo Jackson's bat made the same sound.
If it weren't for Buck O'Neil, all we'd know about Josh Gibson would be that he's bigger than everybody else in team photographs. We'd be saying "that guy might have been a very good hitter," and that's about it.

According to the Negro League Register in the Baseball Encyclopedia Gibson only hit 146 homeruns. If it weren't for O'Neil's hard work, Gibson might never have gotten his due.