Who is the single season home run king ? (cont..)?

Question

(factoring in alleged sterioid use )

Answer 1

Roger Maris - 61 home runs in 1961

I don't care if Bonds hits 100 home runs in a season, in my book it amounts to "zero".

Answer 2

Factoring in other things as well, there are many factors, this is what it's like according to an article by Dayne Perry of FOX Sports:

A 3-way tie between Frank Robinson, Harmon Killebrew and Jimmy Foxx with 49.

I do think that Maris should hold the record with 61 though, so Albert Pujols will beat it next year.

Answer 3

Baseball's problematic single-season home run record

...Since Ruth was allowed only a 154-game season, modern players with an expanded 162-game season had an unfair advantage in breaking records. Later in the 1961 season, Mantle was unable to continue playing owing to injury, but Maris hit 61 home runs for the season, surpassing Ruth's record. Because only 59 of those home runs were hit during the first 154 games, there was debate over whether Maris had actually broken the record and a continuing belief that Maris's name appeared in the record book with an asterisk. That was never the case, because, as sportswriter Allen Barra points out, there was no official record book of Major League Baseball at the time, and individual publishers of baseball records and statistics never used the asterisk with Maris's record (although some publishers did list Maris's achievement on a separate page from Ruth's record).

Answer 4

Barry Bonds hit 73

Answer 5

You can't NOT give it to Bonds. There is still no proof of steroids. Sorry, books don't count as proof. And even if he does fail a test, MLB would have to come up with a plan to invalidate the records. People can't just decide which records they want to accept on their own. For people who say Ryan Howard will be the king if he hits 62 this year, you can't assume that he is clean and that Sosa/McGwire/Bonds aren't. You just can't do that. Either everyone is guilty until proven innocent, or nobody is.

Answer 6

With alleged steroid use, Barry Bonds 73
Without alleged steroid use but with an asterisk for many years due to more games Roger Maris 61. Which would leave us with Babe Ruth 60. I guess you can take your pick as to what record you choose to recognize. That's baseball's problem to deal with.

Answer 7

Although I am a SF Giants fan, I would have to still say that it Barry Bonds. I wonder how many he hit before he used those two substances?

Now, answering a question with a question..... I met him (B. Bonds) at my old place of employment (EA Sports) through his business partner's little brother who was a co-worker of mine. Every time I saw him, I shook his hand and chatted a bit with him. Will I have home run strength if I start playing baseball due to some of that "stuff" transferring from his hands to mine?

Answer 8

Lenny Sakata of the 1985 Baltimore Orioles.

Answer 9

Barry Bonds (73)
Mark McGuire (70)
Sammy Sosa (66)

Those are the top 3.

Answer 10

Its funny that it took 37 years for the record to be broken by McGuire and then 3 years later by Bonds. Let's also not forget Sosa who was chasing the record with over 60 HR's three years in a row. These three guys had never hit over 45 HR's in a season let alone 50 or 55, we're talking 60 and 70+ HR's.
There is only one real record and it's Maris's 61 HR's.
Cheaters need not apply.

Answer 11

Roger Maris 61