73, by Barry Bonds in 2001. The whole sixty-homer club, 2025 included, and the career ladder from 762 down — every season counted from one archive.
Read the full story ↓The season table has one number at the top and a crowd just beneath it. Barry Bonds’s 73 in 2001 is the record; the 1998 chase supplied the next two seasons, Mark McGwire’s 70 and Sammy Sosa’s 66, and the same two hitters filled the three places after that in the seasons around it. Take those 6 seasons out and the sixty-homer club is a short, spread-out list: one in 1927, one in 1961, one in 2022, one in 2025.
| Player | Home runs | Season |
|---|---|---|
| Barry Bonds | 73 | 2001 |
| Mark McGwire | 70 | 1998 |
| Sammy Sosa | 66 | 1998 |
| Mark McGwire | 65 | 1999 |
| Sammy Sosa | 64 | 2001 |
| Sammy Sosa | 63 | 1999 |
| Aaron Judge | 62 | 2022 |
| Roger Maris | 61 | 1961 |
| Cal Raleigh | 60 | 2025 |
| Babe Ruth | 60 | 1927 |
| Babe Ruth | 59 | 1921 |
| Giancarlo Stanton | 59 | 2017 |
10 seasons of sixty or more, by 7 hitters. Babe Ruth opened the club in 1927; Roger Maris passed him by one in 1961; the 1998–2001 group then rewrote the top of the table in four summers. After that the club closed for two decades, until Aaron Judge’s 62 in 2022 and Cal Raleigh’s 60 in 2025 — the first sixty-homer season by a catcher, and the freshest row in the archive.
The career table is steadier. Barry Bonds sits first at 762, Hank Aaron second at 755, Babe Ruth third at 714, and only 4 players have reached seven hundred at all. Every row below is a full career summed season by season from the same archive, a traded season counted once.
| Player | Home runs | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Barry Bonds | 762 | 1986–2007 |
| Hank Aaron | 755 | 1954–1976 |
| Babe Ruth | 714 | 1914–1935 |
| Albert Pujols | 703 | 2001–2022 |
| Alex Rodriguez | 696 | 1994–2016 |
| Willie Mays | 660 | 1948–1973 |
| Ken Griffey | 630 | 1989–2010 |
| Jim Thome | 612 | 1991–2012 |
| Sammy Sosa | 609 | 1989–2007 |
| Frank Robinson | 586 | 1956–1976 |
One public batting archive covering every season from 1871 through 2025. A player traded mid-season has his stints summed into one season total, which is what keeps the split-season chases exact, and the archive follows the modern record book in carrying Negro Leagues seasons — the reason Willie Mays’s span begins in 1948. Nothing on this page is retyped from a list; every number is read from the archive on each build. What the hitters behind these numbers looked like: the average MLB player, same archive family.
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73, by Barry Bonds in 2001. The two seasons behind it belong to the 1998 chase — Mark McGwire's 70 and Sammy Sosa's 66 — and the same two hitters own the next three places as well, so 6 of the 10 sixty-homer seasons ever recorded came from 1999–2001.
Barry Bonds, with 762 from 1986 to 2007. Hank Aaron is next at 755, then Babe Ruth at 714; 4 hitters in the whole archive reached seven hundred.
7, across 10 seasons. The list runs from Babe Ruth's 60 in 1927 to Cal Raleigh's 60 in 2025, and between them sit Roger Maris (61, 1961), Aaron Judge (62, 2022) and the 1998–2001 group at the top of the table.
Yes — Cal Raleigh finished the 2025 season on exactly 60, the first sixty-homer season since Aaron Judge's 62 in 2022 and the same number Babe Ruth reached in 1927. The archive already carries it; most static lists do not.
Because the archive follows the modern record book in carrying Negro Leagues seasons, so his span reads 1948–1973 — his professional start rather than his National League debut — while his 660 matches the official career total exactly.
That is the game this record book scores: spin real franchise eras, draft an all-time lineup with these seasons on the cards, and play for the perfect MLB season on the baseball board.
