This is a comprehensive breakdown of both leagues showing the number of home runs in each league and a major league total for every season in baseball history. Research by Baseball Almanac.

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In Major League Baseball (MLB), a player in each league [L] wins the home run title each season by hitting the most home runs that year. [2] Only home runs hit in a particular league count towards that …

LEAGUE HR SEASON G W% W L AB R H 2B 3B RBI BB HBP SO SB CS PA TB XBH SH SF IBB GIDP AVG OBP SLG OPS; 1

Runs Batted InRuns which score because of the batter's safe hit, sac bunt, sac fly, infield out or fielder's choice or is forced to score by a bases loaded walk, hit batter, or interference.

The data for each year was gathered from the top 10 home run hitters in Major League Baseball for that year. With the exception of 1935, which was as symetric as these numbers get, each year's data is …

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a year-by-year leaderboard in Major League home runs for every season since 1876. Note: A bold faced entry denotes that the player was active during the …

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List of Major League Baseball home run records This is a list of some of the records relating to home runs hit in baseball games played in the Major Leagues.