Whose "professional" home run record did Bonds break?

Answer 1

In 2001, Barry Bonds hit 73 home runs during a single season, which beat Mark McGwire's 70-home mark (1998) in Major League Baseball. However, this also broke the all-time professional record of 72 home runs held by Joe Bauman since 1954, who played for the Rosewell Rockets (Longhorn Class C Minor League).

Answer 2

Alyson I have to say your cutting and pasting is excellent, except for the fact some of the stats are either wrong or outdated. For instance, active home run leaders are Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. Sammy Sosa is no longer active. Also hits, Ty Cobb had 4191, second to Pete Rose. Gred Maddux and Roger Clemmens both have over 300 wins in their career.
Now to the actual question, Bonds broke Mark McGwires single season home run record of 70. But becaues his and McGwires and Sosa's were all juiced home runs, I say that none of them count and the record still belongs to Roger Maris who in 1961 hit 61 homers.

Answer 3

He recently passed Babe Ruth on the all time list, but has yet to break Hank Aaron's all time record of 755. However, many of Bond's home runs are probably not legit because of the use of body enhancing agents.

Answer 4

Some Basic Baseball Facts

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Single season Records

Batting average: Hugh Duffy, .440, 1894;
Modern era: Rogers Hornsby, .424, 1924.

Home runs: The question is, "How long before someone breaks Barry Bond's 73 HR record?" Maybe Sosa or Griffey next? Maybe Bonds again. Prior to McGwire's and Sosa's record breaking '98 season of 70 and 66 HR's respectively, Roger Maris, 61 HR's in 1961 (162-game season), and Babe Ruth, 60 HR's in 1927 (154-game season), "shared" the record.
Poor Roger always gets an asterisk by his record because he had a longer season. On one hand he held the ML HR record for almost 40 years and was league MVP twice, but he was a lifetime .260 hitter in 12 seasons hitting over 20 HR's only in four other seasons. Maris and Ruth were helped by Yankee stadium's famous "short porch" in right field. Ruth played when the right field foul line was 295 feet away, but it was 487 to center! It was 315 down the line for Maris. Although both did hit about half their home runs in other stadiums during their record-setting years.
Maris was helped by expansion year pitching. Ruth and today's players were helped by "juiced ball" periods. The ball was "juiced" in the 30's to help stop declining attendance during the Depression. This helped Ruth's lifetime HR count and other records set during this period.

Stolen Bases: Hugh Nicol, 138, 1887; modern era: Rickey Henderson, 130, 1982.



Lifetime Records

Batting average: Ty Cobb, .367

Ty Cobb, probably the best line-drive hitter ever,
shown here making one of his famous (or infamous) slides in 1909.

Home runs: Hank Aaron, 755; Babe Ruth is 2nd with 714.

Runs Batted In: Hank Aaron, 2297; Babe Ruth, 2213.

On Base Percentage: Ted Williams, .483; Babe Ruth, .474

Hits: Pete Rose, 4256; Cal Ripken, 3184.

Walks: Rickey Henderson, 2179

Stolen Bases: Rickey Henderson, 1406. Way ahead of anybody else.

Runs Scored: Rickey Henderson, 2288; Ty Cobb, 2246; Babe Ruth & Hank Aaron, 2174.

At Bats: Pete Rose, 14,053; Cal Ripken, 11,151

Games: Pete Rose, 3562; Cal Ripken, 3001

Wins for a Pitcher: Cy Young, 511. Almost 100 more than the next winningest pitcher.

Saves: Lee Smith, 473

Earned Run Average: Ed Walsh, 1.82; modern era: Hoyt Wilhelm, 2.52.

Strikeouts: Nolan Ryan, 5714

Iron Man: Cal Ripken didn't miss a game in the Orioles' starting lineup between 5/29/82 and 9/19/98 (2632 games).



The Leaders Among Active Players (through 2003)

Home Runs: Barry Bonds, 650, and Sammy Sosa, 527, number four and number twelve, respectively, on the all-time home run list.

RBIs: Barry Bonds, 1742 and Rafael Palmeiro, 1687.

Batting Average: Todd Helton, .337, Nomar Garciaparra and Vladimir Guerrero, .323.

At Bats: Rickey Henderson, 10,961 and Rafael Palmeiro, 9553.

Pitching:
Most Wins: Roger Clemens, 280; Greg Maddux, 257.
ERA: Pedro Martinez, 2.58; John Franco, 2.74.
Strike Outs: Roger Clemens, 4099; Randy Johnson, 3871.



Congratulations to Barry Bonds!
2001 Record-setting Season
and the latest member of the 500 HR club


73 Home Runs Major League record
.328 Average
137 RBIs
177 Walks Major League record
.515 On Base %
.863 Slugging Pct Major League record
Four-time MVP Major League record
Trivia question: Whose professional home run record did Bonds break?
No, it wasn't McGwire's.
In 1954 Joe Bauman his 72 HRs for the Minor League Roswell Rockets in 138 games. Despite the 72 HRs, hitting .400 and having 224 RBIs that year Joe never made it to the Majors.

Answer 5

Roger Maris and Mark McGuire

Answer 6

Alyson

Nice cut and paste job with no link to the source.

Babe Ruth is correct.

Answer 7

Most in a season? - Mark McGuire

Answer 8

mark mcguire's single season homerun record.

& most steroids taken in one season :-)

Answer 9

hes a total fool neways.
take some more steroids buddy.