In Major League Baseball, the 50 home run club is an informal term applied to the group of players who have hit 50 or more home runs in a single season. The 50 Home Run Club was "founded" by Babe Ruth in 1920. At the time, he became the first player to hit not only 50 home runs in a season, but 40 and 30 as well, breaking his own single season record of 29 from the 1919 season. Major Leagues redirects here. ... Homerun redirects here. ... This article is about the baseball player. ... See also: 1919 in sports, other events of 1920, 1921 in sports and the list of years in sports. // Baseball (Major League) January 3 - Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sells Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan, beginning the Curse of... See also: 1918 in sports, other events of 1919, 1920 in sports and the list of years in sports. Baseball The Black Sox scandal -- Seven members of the Chicago White Sox take bribes to throw the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds The Florida State League is founded with teams...

Mentioned less frequently are the 60 Home Run Club and the 70 Home Run Club, which have five and two members respectively. These "clubs" have become more populated since the 1998 season, which saw membership in the 60 Home Run Club double. That year, Mark McGwire became the founding member of the 70 Home Run Club when he set a new single-season record. He has since been surpassed by Barry Bonds, the only other member of the 70 Home Run Club. // Stock car racing: Dale Earnhardt won the Daytona 500 NASCAR Championship - Jeff Gordon NASCAR celebrates its 50th anniversary Indy Racing League - Indianapolis 500 - Eddie Cheever CART Racing - Alex Zanardi won the season championship Formula One Championship - Mika Häkkinen of Finland 24 hours of Le Mans: won by the team... Mark David McGwire (born October 1, 1963 in Pomona, California) is a former professional baseball player who played the majority of his major league career with the Oakland Athletics before finishing his career with the St. ... Barry Lamar Bonds (born July 24, 1964 in Riverside, California) is currently a left fielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. ...

The club

As of the 2007 season, 25 players have hit 50 or more home runs in a single season, a total of 41 times: all of baseball, see 2007 in baseball. ...

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Current single-season record in boldface.

Career home run totals are as of through 2007. Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era in the 21st century. ...

The 60 home run club

As of the 2007 season, 5 players have hit 60 or more home runs in a single season, a total of 8 times:^[1] all of baseball, see 2007 in baseball. ...

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The 70 home run club

As of the 2007 season, 2 players have hit 70 or more home runs in a single season, a total of 2 times:^[1] all of baseball, see 2007 in baseball. ...

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Trivia

• Before 1990, only 11 players had hit 50 or more homers in a season, a total of 18 times in 70 years; only two of them — Ruth and Maris — had hit 60 or more. Since 1994, a decade called "the steroids era" by Dan Patrick [1] and Neil Hayes, 13 more players have joined the Club by hitting 50 or more homers 21 times; three players — Sosa, McGwire and Bonds — have, combined, hit 60 or more homers six times, two of whom have broken the 70+ home run plateau.
• The eight seasons from 1995 through 2002 mark the longest stretch of consecutive seasons with at least one batter hitting 50-or-more home runs; 10 batters combined to hit a total of 1,051 home runs, reaching the 50 home run plateau 18 times. The second-longest stretch is the 3 seasons from 2005 through 2007 (Rodriguez twice, Jones, Howard and Ortiz, and Prince Fielder).
• Since the start of the live-ball era in the 1920s, the only decade which did not see a 50-homer season was the 1980s. Only one player — George Foster in 1977 — had a 50-homer season in the quarter-century between 1965 and 1990.
• Three notable members who joined this list since 1990 — Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGwire — have been embroiled in the ongoing steroids controversy [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. This brings into question the legitimacy of their numbers [7].
• Fifteen of the 24 club members have hit 50+ homers only once.
• Among members of the 50-homer club, Brady Anderson's 1996 performance was probably the greatest deviation from his career numbers. His 1996 season was the only time in his career that he hit even 25 homers, and was one of only three seasons in which he hit as many as 20. Anderson's career home run total of 210 is the lowest of any member of the 50-homer club (except for Ryan Howard and Prince Fielder, both third-year players in 2007).
• Ten members of the club are also members of the 500 home run club (Rodriguez, Bonds, Ruth, Mays, Sosa, Griffey, McGwire, Mantle, Foxx, and Thome). Bonds, Ruth, Mays, and Sosa are four of the five members of the 600-homer club.
• Three members of the club (not including active players) have hit less than 300 career home runs (Anderson with 210; Wilson with 244; Maris with 275).
• Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa and Babe Ruth share the record for most 50+ homer seasons, with four each.
• McGwire also holds the record for most homers in two consecutive seasons with 135 (70 in 1998, 65 in 1999). In addition, he holds the record for homers in three (193 from 1997-99) and four consecutive seasons (245 from 1996-99).
• Ruth was the first player to hit 50 or more homers in two consecutive seasons (1920 and 1921). After Ruth hit 50 or more homers in consecutive seasons again in 1927 and 1928, this feat wouldn't be repeated again for nearly 70 years.
• McGwire was the first player to hit 50 or more homers in three consecutive seasons (1996, 1997 and 1998), as well as the first player to hit 50 or more homers in four consecutive seasons (1996-1999).
• Sosa was the first player to hit 50 or more homers in four consecutive seasons in the National League (1998-2001)
• McGwire and Sammy Sosa were the first players to hit 60 or more home runs in two consecutive season (1998 and 1999).
• Sosa was the first player to hit 60 or more home runs three times (1998, 1999 and 2001). Ironically, he did not lead the National League in homers in any of the three seasons; he was second to McGwire in both 1998 and 1999, and was second to Bonds in his record-breaking 2001 season.
• Bonds's record-breaking 2001 season was the only year in which Bonds hit 50 or more homers; similarly, Maris's record-breaking 1961 season was the only year in which Maris hit 40 or more homers.
• McGwire was the only player to hit 50 or more homers in a season during which he played for more than one team (Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals); he was also the only player to accomplish the feat in a season during which he played in both leagues.
• McGwire, Jimmie Foxx, and Alex Rodriguez are the only players to have hit 50 homers for two different teams:
  • Foxx — 52, 1932 A's and 58, 1938 Red Sox
  • McGwire — 52, 1996 A's; 58, 1997 A's & Cardinals; 70, 1998 Cardinals; and 65, 1999 Cardinals
  • Rodriguez — 52, 2001 Rangers; 57, 2002 Rangers; 54, 2007 Yankees
• The New York Yankees hold the record with eight 50+ home run seasons (four by Ruth; two by Mantle; one each by Maris and Rodriguez), but did not have a player with 50-or-more home runs in 45 years until Alex Rodriguez in 2007. The Yankees also hold the record with four different players who have hit 50-or-more home runs in a season.
• The Arizona Diamondbacks were the youngest team to have a player hit 50-or-more home runs; they had been a National League franchise for only four years when Gonzalez hit 57 in 2001. Of the teams that have had a 50+ home run season, the Braves took the longest to have a player achieve the feat, at 130 years before Jones hit 51 in 2005; of American League teams with a 50+ home run season, the Baltimore Orioles took the longest at 96 years before Anderson hit 50 in 1996.
• 13 teams have never had a player hit 50-or-more home runs in a season; the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Chicago White Sox, the Minnesota Twins, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the New York Mets, the Houston Astros, the Kansas City Royals, the Washington Nationals, the Toronto Blue Jays, the Colorado Rockies, the Florida Marlins, and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Of those teams, the Dodgers are the oldest at 117 years, while the White Sox and the Twins are the oldest American League teams at 106 years each.
• 1938 was the first season in which two players each hit 50 or more homers (Foxx and Greenberg).
• 1998 was the first season in which two players each hit 60 or more homers (McGwire and Sosa).
• 1998 and 2001 share the record for the most players in a single season to hit 50 or more homers, with four batters each (Vaughn, Griffey, Sosa and McGwire in 1998; Rodriguez, Gonzalez, Sosa and Bonds in 2001).
• Hank Aaron, with the second most career home runs (755), is not a member of the 50 home run club, never having hit more than 47 home runs in a single season.
• Prince Fielder is the youngest player to reach the mark, hitting his 50th at the age of 23.
• Cecil and Prince Fielder are the first (and so far, only) father and son duo to hit 50 home runs in a season.

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