Who do you consider the all-time Home Run King?

[filihok]

There's only one answer to this question, and it's incredibly sad that that answer is considered the answer by less than one-quarter of the ESPN poll participants.

Yep. It is extremely obvious that 868 is greater than both 762 and 755

[HoustonGM]

Yep. Sadaharu Oh has hit more home runs than anybody else in a professional baseball league, I'm pretty sure. But, I'm also pretty sure that that's not what the question is asking (even though the wording is vague, we all know what the question is).

[Clay Dreslough]

It's all that ultimate frisbee and fixing bugs 25 hours a day.

Fixing bugs 25 hours per day really helps me lose weight. Because I have to jog into the next time zone every day, all while typing at a computer keyboad.

[BINGLEBOP]

Ah, so it's actually the jogging that helped you to lose the weight. What type of diet did you have during your Gumplike jogging expedition?

[TheNamelessPoet]

Although if you wanted to really think about it. All time home run king. Oh had far more home runs (albeit in what is considered a lesser league) and unfortunately they did not keep anywhere near accurate records for any of the so called numbers Josh Gibson put up to be considered valid.

I was JUST going to say taht. they THINK it was around 800-820 right?

[dps]

Yep. Sadaharu Oh has hit more home runs than anybody else in a professional baseball league, I'm pretty sure. But, I'm also pretty sure that that's not what the question is asking (even though the wording is vague, we all know what the question is).

If the question is (as you and most others would take it) "who hit the most home runs in major league history" then obviously, the answer is Barry Bonds. But given the wording of the question in the OP, other interpretations are possible, and my answer is Babe Ruth.

[TheNamelessPoet]

If the question is (as you and most others would take it) "who hit the most home runs in major league history" then obviously, the answer is Barry Bonds. But given the wording of the question in the OP, other interpretations are possible, and my answer is Babe Ruth.

lol... what

[Wassit3]

This is a point that I think more people need to understand.

hitlock had this to say about it:

Steroids are the forbidden fruit in baseball and a healthy green vegetable in football. Why?

Well, throughout our American history there have been four sports that define male machismo — boxing, baseball, football and basketball. As you know, men take machismo very seriously. It is the lone, scientifically proven substitute for having a big Johnson, which explains Napoleon's disease.

Thanks in part to segregation laws, three white men and a mixed-race native American — James J. Jeffries, Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe and George Mikan — got first crack as symbols of the macho games that matter most in America.

Jeffries was the first to fall. In an effort to prove the superiority of white men over the American Negro, Jeffries came out of retirement early in the 20th century, lost 100 pounds and took on Jack Johnson in "the fight of the century." Jeffries lost badly and later admitted that even in his prime he would've been no match for Johnson.

Jim Brown unseated Thorpe, a native American, as the unquestioned king of football. Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain leaped past Mikan on the hardwood.

Willie Mays and Hank Aaron took good, hard runs at Babe Ruth, but The Great Bambino is still standing. Today he shares the stage with Brown, Muhammad Ali and Michael Jordan as the greatest of all-time in the American sports that define who we believe we are.

Babe Ruth is not going anywhere without a massive, nuclear fight. His supporters do not care that he dominated a segregated, inferior brand of Major League Baseball.

Babe Ruth is an important symbol, and challengers to his throne will be greeted with immense resistance.

That's why steroids matter so much in baseball. They distort our appreciation of Ruth's numbers, particularly his home-run stats, the penis-measuring digits of baseball. Chicks dig the long ball.


http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/9...all-about-Babe

[HoustonGM]

That's why steroids matter so much in baseball. They distort our appreciation of Ruth's numbers, particularly his home-run stats, the penis-measuring digits of baseball. Chicks dig the long ball.

In other words, people are unable to think rationally and don't understand that just because Barry Bonds hit more home runs than Babe Ruth doesn't mean that Bonds was a better player. Baseball has undue importance placed on its records.

[Wassit3]

In other words, people are unable to think rationally and don't understand that just because Barry Bonds hit more home runs than Babe Ruth doesn't mean that Bonds was a better player. Baseball has undue importance placed on its records.

he also makes the assertion that Ruth played in an inferior league compared to Bonds, what do you think of that notion?

[HoustonGM]

he also makes the assertion that Ruth played in an inferior league compared to Bonds, what do you think of that notion?

It's obviously true. Segregation did infinitely more to harm the competitive integrity of the game than steroids ever have or ever will.

[Red Sox Fan 734]

Bonds hit more then Aaron, 8 more to be exact so Barry Bonds is the home run king

[HoustonGM]

7, actually.

[TheNamelessPoet]

lol OWNED

[Wassit3]

It's obviously true. Segregation did infinitely more to harm the competitive integrity of the game than steroids ever have or ever will.

well he was also partly building his argument that because Bonds dominated a stronger league that makes bonds better I think. again comment please.