Babe Ruth Home Runs

Babe Ruth Career Home Runs Overview

Babe Ruth is widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players of all time and is particularly famous for his home run hitting ability. Ruth played for 22 seasons in Major League Baseball, primarily for the New York Yankees, and was one of the most dominant players of his era.

As of the end of his career in 1935, Ruth had hit a total of 714 home runs, which was a Major League record at the time. This record stood until 1974, when it was broken by Hank Aaron. Ruth's ability to hit home runs was unprecedented at the time and helped to transform the game of baseball into a more high-scoring and exciting sport.

Ruth hit at least 40 home runs in a season 11 times during his career, including a career-high 60 home runs in 1927, which was a record that stood for 34 years. He also led the league in home runs 12 times, which is still a Major League record. Ruth's home run hitting ability was a major reason why he was such a dominant player and why he was such a popular and revered figure in the game of baseball.

Ruth's home run hitting ability was due in part to his exceptional strength and athleticism, but also to his ability to read pitchers and anticipate the trajectory of the ball. He was able to hit home runs to all parts of the field and was particularly adept at hitting the ball to the opposite field, which made it difficult for opposing teams to defend against him.

Overall, Babe Ruth's home run hitting ability was legendary and helped to establish him as one of the greatest players in the history of baseball. His ability to hit the ball out of the park with such regularity was unprecedented at the time and helped to transform the game of baseball into the high-scoring and exciting sport that it is today.

Home runs (HR) are hits where the player hits the ball and reaches home in a single play without the benefit of an error or fielders choice. Commonly this is done by the player hitting the ball over the outfield fence in fair territory but it can also occur with a well placed hit that stays inside the park. Generally, for Home Runs, higher is better. (Source)

Babe Ruth Lifetime Home Runs and Similar Stats

Stats similar to Home Runs for Babe Ruth

	Babe Ruth Home Runs	Babe Ruth Home Runs Per at Bat	Babe Ruth Home Runs Per Hit
Career	714	0.085	0.249
Season Avg.	32	0.074	0.226
162 Game Avg.	46	0.085	0.249
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Babe Ruth Home Runs By Year Line Chart

This line chart shows Babe Ruth's yearly Home Runs for each season of his Major League Baseball career. Also included, for comparison, are yearly player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, and players from their country of birth. For these groups, averages are calculated for each group's performance for the defined year.

Babe Ruth Cumulative Home Runs by Year

This line chart attempts to show show how Babe Ruth's career Home Runs progressed by year. Each year on the chart represents Babe Ruth's career Home Runs at the end of that season.

Babe Ruth Home Runs By Year Box Chart

This chart attempts to draw comparisons between Babe Ruth and related player groups by summarizing Home Runs for each season played by Babe Ruth. The box represents the middle 50% of the data for each player with the line in the box being the median value. The whiskers represent the ranges for the top and bottom 25% of the data. Review the spread and medians to draw your conclusions!

Babe Ruth Home Runs Per Season Stats Table

This table shows Babe Ruth Home Runs stats per season for his full MLB career with the aggregations’ sum, average, minimum, maximum, and median. Also included, for comparison, are season player averages for MLB, Hall of Fame players, RF, and players from their country of birth. The comparisons are calculated for each group for each year of Babe Ruth career.

Note: "—" indicate there were no players for comparison for a specific year. Most commonly this happens for the hall of fame group where there may not have been a hall of famer playing that year.