Mark McGwire - One of Greatest Home Run Sluggers |
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Active Players with 300 or more career homersPlayer '98 '99 '00 '01 Rank Mark McGwire 457 522 554 581 5th Barry Bonds 411 445 494 557 9th Jose Canseco 397 431 446 446 23rd Ken Griffey 350 398 438 438 25th Fred McGriff 365 390 417 425 28th Cal Ripken 384 402 417 419 29th Rafael Palmeiro 314 361 400 411 32nd Sammy Sosa 272 336 386 400 37th Harold Baines 348 373 384 384 40th Juan Gonzalez 301 340 362 375 51st Andres Galarraga 332 332 360 368 52rd Matt Williams 334 346 351 61st Frank Thomas 301 346 348 62nd Greg Vaughn 320 332 73rd |
Sluggers with 500 or more homers
Single Season Walks In 1998, he drew 162 walks, tying Ted Williams at 2nd place. On September 12, 1998, he set a new NL record of 162 for most walks in a single season. He also leads the major league in intentional walks at 28. When Roger Maris broke Babe Ruth's single season home run record in 1961, he even did not draw a single intentional walk during the entire season! |
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Mark McGwire's Home Run HighlightsTo date, he has hit his career homer.
Big Mac's Goals for 2001 and Beyond He is 2nd place to Babe Ruth's 72
for most career multi-homer games He has hit 188 homers since the start of the 1998 season. June 24, 1997--He hit the longest home run of his career, 538 feet, which set up a record for the longest home run distance at the KingDome In Seattle. He did to his former USC teammate, Randy Johnson who set his personal record for most strikeouts at 19. July 29, 1997--He was traded to St. Louis Cardinals. September 2, 1997--He hit his fourth 500-over foot homer of the season. September 10, 1997--He hit his 50th home run, becoming the second player beside Babe Ruth to reach 50 homers back-to-back seasons. September 28, 1997--In the last game of the regular season, he hit his 58th home run, tying the season record for most homer runs hit by a right-handed slugger. March 31, 1998--He hit his 10th career grand slam home run against Los Angeles. April 14, 1998--He slammed three home runs against Arizona, his 3rd triple-homer in a game during his career. May 8, 1998--He became the 26th - and fastest - player to reach the 400-home-run milestone. May 12, 1998--He hit the longest home run in the 32-year history of Busch Stadium, a 527-foot shot. May 16, 1998--He hit the longest home run of his career, 545 feet, which set up a record for the longest home run distance at Busch Stadium. He has 40 home runs and 87 RBIs in 89 games with the Cardinals. May 19, 1998--He drove with a 451-foot homer into the upper deck at Veterans Stadium at Philadelphia. He'd hit two-run homers earlier in the game that carried 440 and 471 feet. It was the second time this season he'd hit three homers in a game. It was the 45th time in his career that he has hit more than one homer in a game. Only nine players in major-league history have more multi-homer games. He has 44 home runs and 94 RBIs in 92 games with the Cardinals. May 22, 1998--McGwire's major league-leading 21st home run landed in Big Mac Land, a section of seats in the upper deck in left next to the foul pole, in the St. Louis Cardinals' 4-3, 12-inning victory over San Francisco. All 47,549 fans with a ticket get a free Big Mac sandwich at McDonald's, but McGwire makes nothing off the promotional connection. May 23, 1998--All he did on Saturday was belt two more homers, including a three-run blast that traveled 477 feet and snapped a fifth-inning tie to lead St. Louis to an 11-10 victory over the Giants. The multi-homer effort was the 46th of McGwire's career, tying him with Harmon Killebrew and Mickey Mantle for eighth place on the all-time list. McGwire needs one homer to tie the major-league record for most home runs by June 1st, set by Seattle's Ken Griffey Jr. last year. May 25, 1998--He set a new record for most home runs before June 1st after hitting his 25th home run of the season. June 1, 1998--He suffered a back spasm that sidelined him for three games. June 10, 1998--He is the second fastest to 30 home runs, reaching the mark in the Cardinals' 64th game. In 1928, Babe Ruth hit his 30th in the New York Yankees' 63rd game. June 12, 1998--He hit his 11th career grand slam home run against Arizona. July 12, 1998--He reached a 40-home run mark in 90 games, the fastest in baseball history July 17, 1998--He hit two homers -- his 41st (511-ft) and 42nd -- to set a major league record for most home runs by the end of July previously held by Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx. July 26, 1998--He banged his 44th home run, marking a new record for a Cardinal player for most home runs in a season. August 11, 1998--His 47th homer came in his 162nd game with the Cardinals, who acquired him July 31, 1997. In that time he has 71 homers, 146 RBIs and 165 walks. August 20, 1998--He became the first player in history to hit 50 home runs in three consecutive seasons. August 22, 1998--He hit his 52nd home run, breaking Babe Ruth's ML record for most home runs in a 3-year span: 162 September 1, 1998--He banged two homers-his 56th and 57th, breaking Hack Wilson's NL single season record and also breaking Babe Ruth's ML record for most home runs in a 2-year span. September 5, 1998--He slammed his 60th that tied Babe Ruth for most home runs in a 154-game schedule. September 7, 1998--He hit his 61th homer, breaking Babe Ruth's record for most home runs in a 154-game schedule and tying Roger Maris for most home runs in a single season. September 8, 1998--He hit his 62nd homer, breaking Roger Maris' record for most home runs in a single season. September 27, 1998--He hit his number 69 and 70 homers in the final game of the season, setting his new record for most home runs in a single season. April 13, 1999--He banged two homers, his 54th career multi-homer. May 4, 1999--He hit a grand-slam homer against the 4-time Cy Young winner, Atlanta's Greg Maddux, hit 12th career grand-slammers. May 22, 1999--He banged two homers, his 55th career multi-homer. He became one of the three players ever to hit a ball, 484 feet, out of the Dodger Stadium. May 22, 1999--He is the only player to reach Big Mac Land. Both times the victim was Gardner, and the shots came exactly one year apart -- in a strange coincidence, McGwire's homer off Gardner on May 27, 1998, also came with one out in the sixth inning before a sellout crowd of 47,549. "It was a day game, too," Gardner said. The biggest difference is last year's Big Mac landing was No. 21. July 10, 1999--He hit his 485th career homer and scored his 1,000th career run. July 22, 1999--He has now hit a home run in every stadium he's played a regular season game in after a solo shot at Cinergy (Cincinnati Reds). July 26, 1999--He belted his 36th home run of the season. With 255 homers since the start of the 1995 season, he is one home run away from Babe Ruth's record for most homers in five consecutive seasons. Ruth hit 256 in 1926-30. July 30, 1999--He slammed No. 38 and broke Babe Ruth's record for homers in a five-season span with No. 495 of his career. He has 257 homers since 1995, breaking the five-year record he shared with Ruth, who hit 256 from 1926-30. He is one away from tying his own record for most homers (219 from 1995-98) in four consecutive seasons. July 30, 1999--He set a NL record for home runs in July with 16, breaking the old mark of 15 set by Joe Adcock in 1956. August 5, 1999--He banged his 500th career home run. He sets a new record for the fastest player to reach a 500-homer plateau. Also slammed his 501st career homer. August 13, 1999--He hit his 502nd and 503rd career home runs. August 22, 1999--He belted his 506th and 507th career home runs in a single game. Set a new major league record for hitting 50 or more home runs in 4 consecutive seasons. He ties Babe Ruth 's record for most 50-homer seasons at 4. September 17, 1999--He hit his second grand-slam homer of the season, his 13th career. September 19, 1999--He slammed his 514th and 515th career home runs in a single game, tying Hank Aaron for 3rd place with 62 on a career list for most multi-homer games. September 26, 1999--He became only the third player in major league history to have 400 in the same decade. Babe Ruth hit 467 during the 1920s and Jimmie Foxx 415 during the 1930s. Also joined Sammy Sosa as the only players in ML history for having the second 60-homer season. May 14, 2000--He homered in his first two at-bats Sunday, giving him 536 to tie Mickey Mantle for eighth place on the career list. McGwire passed Jimmie Foxx with his 13th homer of the season, a two-run 487-foot shot. McGwire has 63 career multihomer games, tied with Willie Mays for second on the career list. Babe Ruth is the leader with 72. May 18, 2000--He slammed 3 home runs, his 64th career multi-homer games, past Willie Mays for the second place, He is 8 games behind the leader, Babe Ruth at 72. April 14, 2001--He was put on DL due to not full recovery from knee surgery. May 28, 2001--Off DL, he hit his 2nd homer of the season after 1 1/2 months of absence. |
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Major League Home Run Facts |
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