Who holds the "World's record for home runs."?????

Question

Yes he was a catcher in the 1930's for the Homestead Grays and Pittsburgh Crawfords (Negro League clubs), 900 estimated home runs!

Answer 1

Babe Ruth had 1 career minor league home run. Aaron had 31. Bonds had 20. So Oh is the leader unless some Negr0 League stats are revealed somehow.

Answer 2

Career - Sadaharu Oh (Japan) 868 Hrs

Season  - Barry Bonds - 73 (USA)

Answer 3

Josh Gibson. They have him down for around 800 homeruns but not all were counted do to lack of record keeping.

Answer 4

Some cat in Bemidji, Minn. named Toby Gutland hit 1,378 homers during his legendary career.

Answer 5

I know that Sadahura Oh had 868 HR's, but to compare it fully we ought to add minor league HR's to Bonds and Aaron to compare.  I say that because we don't recognize Japanese statistics on the same level as MLB.  When players come here we discard their Japan stats and make them rookies, eligible for ROTY.

I don't know either of their minors totals, but i suspect that they were less than the 100 or so that would be needed to eclipse Oh.