The most home runs ever didnt come from Hank Aaron?

Question

ok, i no that hank aaron is the homer king, so everybody thinks. well in the ***** league there was a guy named Josh Gibson who was a catcher, hit 962 homeruns. the ***** leagues i read were just like the regular league, and maybe even tougher. why does Josh Gibson ever get notice. i know that the ***** leagues were small, and people now adays dont really know much about it, but if it were on the same level as the regular baseball league, he should really be the home run king, not hank aaron or soon to be steroid, no good, cheating barry bonds. i hope that some pitcher throws there hardest ball at barry bonds in the leg and breaks it. but barry has so much padding god knows wat could penitrate him. im not taking anything away from hank, he is a great guy, but i do think that josh gibson should get notice. ive never seen him get noticed until in a small article the other day about baseball facts.

i did some research on Sadaharo Oh and japanese baseball fields are not as big as the ones in the U.S. hideki matsuki of the yankees is a great player, but his homers dropped alot when he came to the u.s. so you really cant consider sadaharo oh the homer king

Answer 1

i looked up josh gibson on the baseball reference and it gave no stats on him, but there was a link to a wikipedia stylepage by the baseball reference that was an excellent read.. i did not get the impression that he hit 962 homers.. i did get the impression he played for 17 years and hit around 20 homers a season.. it did chronicle some really mammoth shots... give it a read...youd be impressed... and to think he did all that with no steroids..bonds* should have been more like this guy....ps. josh gibson has been honored already.. he has always been famous.. i heard of him and his baseball feats when I was a kid, and that was a while ago.... more importantly, he was inducted into the baseball hall of fame in 1972. give the article a read...

Answer 2

You should have read more closely.

Josh Gibson actually hit only about 150 of those homers in the ***** Leagues. The rest were hit in exhibitions, usually against teams of a far inferior quality. And like another post mentioned, those numbers are incredibly questionable to start with.

Gibson was a great player, but it's laughable when people start spouting these numbers without having any idea where they came from.

Answer 3

MLB is the only true league with legit stats and the toughest competition. I agree with the other posts and i agree with YOU about barry bonds. Honestly if anyone is in a league outside the Mlb or japan (which i consider fairly legit because baseball is getting big there even though the competion isnt as difficult) you need to check into these stats. People exagerate and maybe if Josh Gibson had been in the mlb he would have been up there with hank aaron.

Answer 4

The ***** Leagues were nothing like the Majors. A lot of times a great ***** League team would face much easier competition. Many of those 900 home runs that Gibson hit were in exhibition games. He did not hit all of those home runs in official ***** League games.

Answer 5

MLB records are more important to the public than MiLB, ***** League, or any other country's baseball league's records...since the MLB is supposed to be the greatest players in the world brought to play in one league.

Answer 6

If you are going outside of the U.S. Major leagues then the champion home run hitter was Sadaharo Oh in Japan.

Answer 7

It is irrelevant when you factor in how many years the person played. Hank Aaron played decades longer than Babe Ruth, and steroids weren't around much either in the 1920's.
So, my vote will always go with the "Bambino".

Answer 8

Plus you must consider....all of the records are MLB stats and thats it. a "save" wasnt considered a stat until not to long ago, so maybe there'd be an all time save leader change too, just saying.