Most Career Home Runs in MLB History
About This Dataset
Most Career Home Runs in MLB History
MLB players ranked by total career home runs hit in regular season play according to official MLB records. Barry Bonds holds the all-time MLB career home run record with 762 — though his legacy is complicated by allegations of performance-enhancing drug use during the later part of his career, a controversy that has kept him out of the Baseball Hall of Fame despite his extraordinary statistical dominance across two distinct phases of his playing life.
Analysis
Barry Bonds heads the table on 762, ahead of Hank Aaron (755) and Babe Ruth (714) in Career MLB Home Runs. The total is spread widely: even Barry Bonds accounts for only 14% of the 8 combined. Places 3 to 8 are close together, spanning 714 to 609 Career MLB Home Runs.
Source:
Wikipedia
Key Findings
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Barry Bonds leads in Career MLB Home Runs with 762.
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Average Career MLB Home Runs: 680 · median: 678.
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Gap: Barry Bonds is 1.3× larger than Sammy Sosa.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 8 observations
- Measure
- Career MLB Home Runs
- Last updated
- 6 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value.
Data Sources & References
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