Babe Ruth vs. Every Other Home-Run King in History

Babe Ruth vs. Every Other Home-Run King in History
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On August 11, 1929, George Herman “Babe” Ruth hit his 500th home run at Cleveland’s League Park, the first major league baseball player to achieve that lofty status.  Obviously, Ruth was the greatest long ball slugger of his day, and his career total of 714 home runs was not eclipsed until Hammerin’ Hank Aaron beat it in 1974.  Since then, the much reviled Barry Bonds of steroid induced mega-muscles has surpassed Ruth and Aaron both, ending his career in 2007 with an all time best 762 career homers.  Today we are going to compare the top 10 sluggers on the all time career home run list, hitting some of the highlights and interesting facts about their careers.  You decide who the best homer hitter was.  (We say Babe Ruth.)

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