Who is the true Homerun King? Hank Arron (756), Sadaharu Oh (of Japan, 868), or Barry Bonds (758*)?

Answer 1

I would have to say Oh since he owns the all time world record.

Answer 2

For the retards out there, this question is just plain dumb and another weak attempt to say Barry Bonds is a bad person. Only that these people are cowards and have yellow stripes going down their backs because they don't have the guts to tell Barry in front of his face.....

This dummy must have been living in prison or something because Barry Bonds (thanks for the asterisk to highlight his achievement much easier!) is not the HR king, but the HR career leader. Baseball is not based upon royalty. It's only a sport!

Answer 3

Unfortunately, Bonds is the Home Run king. Aaron hit 755, not 756...Bonds has 758...baseball(commish, owners, players and us, the fans) let it happen, and it stands until broken...fortunately there are two guys out there with great chances of taking the record back...A-Rod and Pujols...until tha day though, Bonds is the unfortunate king

Answer 4

If you look entirely at the challenge of hitting home runs compared to what the league is capable of, it's clearly Babe Ruth.

Taking 600 at bats as a season, if you look at the average # of home runs for 600 at bats and the # of home runs (pro-rated to 600 at bats) for guys like Ruth, Aaron, Williams and Bonds, you will see that FAR AND AWAY Ruth is ahead of everyone.

When Ruth hit 59 home runs, the average 600 ab player hit less than 4. When he hit 60 homers, the average player hit 6.21. During Aaron's career, the average hitter hit 14 a season and with Bonds' career, it is 17.65.

In 2001, Bonds hit 73 home runs, but the 'average' hitter hit 20.
Bonds was 2.65 x better than the average hitter, but Ruth 9 and 17x better during his 60 and 59 hr season.

When they talk about Bonds being walked so much, blame that on Bonds and the Giants. If Bonds hadn't had that huge contract, perhaps they could have had a guy batting behind him and not Ray Durham or Moises Alou.
When Ruth walked 150-170 times a year, it was to get to LOU GEHRIG.
How big do you have to be when people are looking forward to pitching to Lou Gehrig instead.

On the idea of Oh, yes, he had the most homers in professional baseball, however, if you judge guys that have left here and had MAJOR success there (Tuffy Rhodes tied his single season record with 55, but sucked in the ML) and look at guys like Kaz Matsui who was a HR threat over there and is a back up infielder in the majors, it takes Oh out of the equation.

Answer 5

HAmmerin Hank

Answer 6

When we speak of baseball we must move to the highest level of the sport and automatically ignore Oh, for all we know he was not even batting against minor league pitching.

Arron or Bonds, It is bonds for now, and we have to deal with it, Unless baseball removes him from the game entirely we need to accept the new number.

Answer 7

I am not sure of the caliber of ball played in Japan. I also think that records are based on the league that they play in. Bonds for American MLB is the king, Oh for Japan. It is kind of like comparing apples and oranges.

Answer 8

Babe Ruth.

Did it without drug7s.

Hit 714 in less at bats then Aaron and Ruth.

Oh played in the Japan League, few players are good enough to even be considered to make it to the REAL Baseball league. (MLB)

Answer 9

I say Sadaharu Oh because he has more than anyone else. The Japanese League is very strong. Look at all the good Japanese players here in the US.

Answer 10

The Japan person is not the king because you forgot to convert from Metric.

Answer 11

Hank Aaron....in japan the fences r much shorter and the pitching isnt as diffucut.....and in this era u never no who could be cheating