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Monday, September 1, 2008

MLB's 250,000th Home Run

Thanks to the guys over at BaseballReference.com, it has now come to my attention that Major League Baseball is on the verge of its 250,000th home run of all time.

That's a quarter of a million dingers for those of you who get flummoxed by numerous zeroes.

It all started on May 2, 1876 when Ross Barnes (pictured) of the Chicago White Stockings (Chicago Cubs) took Cherokee Fisher of the Cincinnati Reds yard. BR doesn't count postseason homers in this stat, as far as I can tell, so some may argue that we have already eclipsed this milestone. However if you go with their numbers we stand at 249,810 through the end of August 31st.

Who will hit the historic shot? Only time will tell, but an interesting side note to these numbers is that 1/5th of the 250,000 have been hit since 1999, only 9 years ago.

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Labels: Cherokee Fisher, Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, MLB, Ross Barnes, Stat City, The Siets

6 Comments:

At September 2, 2008 12:43 AM , Billynho said...: 1/5 in the last nine years? That's caraaazy...
At September 2, 2008 12:13 PM , Grandpa Dick said...: Its crazy to think that if we had a $1.00 for each Home Run in Baseball, we wouldn't have enough money to pay a Major League player for the season.
At September 4, 2008 10:48 PM , joe blow said...: The Chicago White Stockings became the Chicago White Sox not the Chicago Cubs.
At September 4, 2008 11:48 PM , The Siets said...: @Joe Blow...

You are correct that the Chi-Sox were once called the White Stockings. However this name had been used earlier by the team that became the Cubs. In 1876, when Ross Barnes hit the first homer, the name White Stockings belonged to the future Cubs.
At September 7, 2008 12:05 AM , Anonymous said...: 1/5 that number could have a thing to do with steroids.nah never
At January 5, 2009 10:56 PM , Anonymous said...: Chicago white stockings became The Chicago Cubs! You are wrong... look it up... F*cking Sox fans... And they say Cubs fans "don't know baseball?!"