Top 68+1 Home Run Hitters of All Time: Who is Your Favorite? Why?

You gotta a love a few of these bashers:

Top 68+1 Home Run Hiiters of All Time: Who is Your Favorite? Why?

Home Runs
All Time Leaders

'Top 100'

Name Home Runs Rank---dated back to 2007, not counting the present one, thanks to :

Baseball Hitting Charts by Baseball Almanac---------

Players that I think I have seen play in person---in red

 Barry Bonds 762 1

 Hank Aaron 755 2

Babe Ruth 714 3

Willie Mays 660 4

Sammy Sosa 609 5

Ken Griffey, Jr. 593 6 My personal hope to surpass the Bondster. Gotta love his character. He has been hurt a lot, but could he be as sweet an old hitter as he was a youngster?

Frank Robinson 586 7

Mark McGwire 583 8

Harmon Killebrew 573 9 My Idaho guy. I love big farmer types like this. Anymore, they become linebackers, lineman or hay bailers. Or occasionally a world class wrestler. (That is Rulon Gardner from Wyoming, mighty close to Idaho.) Harmon was a O SM. (Original Stormin' Mormon)

 Rafael Palmeiro 569 10 He gets a nod for the difficulty with which Haray Caray had pronouncing his name corectly with the Cubs, and then backwards? See Galarraga.

Reggie Jackson 563 11

Mike Schmidt 548 12 Quite a third baseman in an era called "dead ball".

Mickey Mantle 536 13

 Jimmie Foxx 534 14

Willie McCovey 521 15

Ted Williams 521   War vet. WWII and Korea? Fantastic.

Alex Rodriguez 518 17 The Real Natural.

Frank Thomas 513 18 He was a linebacker at Auburn. A big linebacker. This guy ways in at 285 and scares most boxers.

Ernie Banks 512 19 "Let's play two". The Cubs are greater because of them.

Eddie Mathews 512  

Mel Ott 511 21

Jim Thome 507 22 Old school. All heart. Fun to watch.

Eddie Murray 504 23 He was a switch hitter. And mostly DH still awesome.

 Lou Gehrig 493 24 Anybody with a disease named after them is cool. Great history related to him and the glorified Yanks. That is pure Americana. Like Mantle, DiMaggio, etc...

Fred McGriff 493   This guy was big and tall and powerful. He looked like a class act.

Manny Ramirez 490 26

 Gary Sheffield 480 27

 Stan Musial 475 28

Willie Stargell 475  

Dave Winfield 465 30

Jose Canseco 462 31

Carl Yastrzemski 452 32

Jeff Bagwell 449 33

Dave Kingman 442 34 One of the original pure power hitters. Thanks WGN. You were ahead of your time.

Andre Dawson 438 35 The Hawk! Loved him Montreal. Hawk!

 Juan Gonzalez 434 36 This guy looked like a superhero, and sometimes acted like one.

Carlos Delgado 431 37

Cal Ripken, Jr. 431  

Mike Piazza 427 39

Billy Williams 426 40

Darrell Evans 414 41

Duke Snider 407 42

Andres Galarraga 399 43 The Big Cat. Loved him with the Spos and then as a cancer survivor.

 Al Kaline 399  

Dale Murphy 398 45

Joe Carter 396 46

Graig Nettles 390 47

Johnny Bench 389 48 Probably the first one I ever saw, in Cinncinnati, around 1977. First game was memorable.

Chipper Jones 386 49

Dwight Evans 385 50

 Harold Baines 384 51

Larry Walker 383 52

Frank Howard 382 53

Jim Rice 382   The name and inspiration in my Boston roots that might be one of the reasons I am a hapless fan three decades later.

Albert Belle 381 55

Orlando Cepeda 379 56

 Tony Perez 379  

Matt Williams 378 58 I knew  a guy who knew this guy in Reno, Nevada. That is cool.

Norm Cash 377 59

Carlton Fisk 376 60 Catcher. Love that.

Rocky Colavito 374 61

Gil Hodges 370 62

Ralph Kiner 369 63

Andruw Jones 368 64

Vladimir Guerrero 365 65 Love him. Swings at anything and hits a lot of it. Expos forever. More talent in one pinky than Canseco's bicep.

Jeff Kent 365   A member of my church who has a swearting problem. Have to admire his honesty except for his "washing the pick up truck" accident (by his motorcycle). Getting it done later in life, and famously confronted Barry Bonds while simultaneously helping his career numbers.

Jason Giambi 364 67

 Jim Edmonds 362 68 This is classic player who can make dramatic catches. No respect for the body! Love it, like Griffey.

Joe DiMaggio 361 69

The ones in bold all played last year and most are still swinging for the fences.

My favorites have to be Ken Griffey, Jr., Dale Murphy, Vlad Guerrero, Andre Dawson and Jeff Kent. Not exactly in that order. And the Big Hurt. and Matt Williams, and Harmon Killebrew. And maybe McGriff and a few others. Jim Thome. Bags. Yaz. Yeah!

Galarraga. Gonzalez. Walker.

Why? More later.

Clinch