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Template:Short description Template:Use American English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Multiple image". In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 50 home run club is the group of batters who have hit 50 or more home runs in a single season.[1][2][3] Babe Ruth was the first to achieve this, doing so in 1920. By reaching the milestone, he also became the first player to hit 30 and then 40 home runs in a single season, breaking his own record of 29 from the 1919 season.[4] Ruth subsequently became the first player to reach the 50 home run club on four occasions, repeating the achievement in 1921, 1927, and 1928.[5][6] He remained the only player to accomplish this until Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa matched his feat in 1999 and 2001, respectively. In doing so, they became the only players to have achieved 50 home runs in four consecutive seasons.[6] Barry Bonds hit the most home runs to join the club, collecting 73 in 2001.[6] The most recent player to hit 50 home runs in three seasons is Aaron Judge, who did so in 2024.

In total, 32 players have reached the 50 home run club in MLB history and ten have done so more than once.[6] Of these, seventeen were right-handed batters, fourteen were left-handed, and one was a switch hitter, meaning he could bat from either side of the plate. Four of these players (including two active members of the 50 home run club)[7] have played for only one major league team. The New York Yankees are the only franchise to have five players reach the milestone while on their roster: Ruth, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Alex Rodriguez, and Aaron Judge. Ten players are also members of the 500 home run club[8] and two of them (Willie Mays and Rodriguez) are also members of the 3,000 hit club.[9] Ten players won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in the same year as their 50 home run season.[10] Mantle is the only player to have earned the Major League Triple Crown alongside achieving 50 home runs, leading both leagues in batting average, home runs and runs batted in (RBI).[11][12][13] Mantle and Maris—collectively known as the M&M Boys—are the only teammates to reach the 50 home run club in the same season, hitting a combined 115 home runs in 1961 and breaking the single-season record for home runs by a pair of teammates.[14][15] Albert Belle is the only player to amass 50 or more doubles in addition to attaining 50 home runs.[16][17] Prince Fielder, at 23 years and 139 days, was the youngest player to reach the milestone while Bonds, at age 37, was the oldest.[18][19] Pete Alonso and Aaron Judge are the only players to hit 50 home runs in their rookie seasons.

Due to the infrequent addition of members into the 50 home run club, Baseball Digest called it "a restrictive fraternity comprising slugging elite"[20] in 1954, when there were only six members. Of the seventeen members eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame, eight have been elected and three were elected on the first ballot. Eligibility requires that a player has "been retired five seasons" or deceased for at least six months,[21] disqualifying four active players and two players who have been retired for less than five seasons. Some believe the milestone has become less important with the large number of new members;[22][23] fifteen players joined the club on a total of 24 occasions from 1995 to 2010.[6] Additionally, several of these recent members have had ties to performance-enhancing drugs.[24][25][26][27]

Members

A man in full baseball attire wears a pinstriped jersey and a baseball cap. Looking to the left of the camera, he is holding a baseball bat upward.
Babe Ruth was the first member of the 50 home run club and joined it in four seasons, a record he shares with Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa.
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Jimmie Foxx achieved the 50 home run club and won the MVP Award in 1932, 1933 and 1938.
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Mickey Mantle (right) earned the Triple Crown in addition to achieving the 50 home run club in 1956. Five years later, he and Roger Maris (left) became the only teammates to reach the 50 home run club in the same season.
Key
Year The year the player's 50 home run season occurred
Player (X)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Name of the player and number of 50 home run seasons they had accomplished at that point
Team The player's team for his 50 home run season
HR Number of home runs in that season
Career The number of home runs the player hit in his MLB career
^ Denotes single-season home run record progression
Template:Dagger Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
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Template:Asterisk Ongoing season
Members of the 50 home run club
Year Player Team HR Career Ref
 
1920 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger New York Yankees 54^ 714 [5]
1921 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger (2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". New York Yankees 59^ 714 [5]
1927 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger (3)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". New York Yankees 60^ 714 [5]
1928 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger (4)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". New York Yankees 54 714 [5]
1930 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger Chicago Cubs 56 244 [28]
1932 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger Philadelphia Athletics 58 534 [29]
1938 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger (2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Boston Red Sox 50 534 [29]
Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger Detroit Tigers 58 331 [30]
1947 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger New York Giants 51 359 [31]
Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger Pittsburgh Pirates 51 369 [32]
1949 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger (2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Pittsburgh Pirates 54 369 [32]
1955 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger New York Giants 51 660 [33]
1956 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger New York Yankees 52 536 [34]
1961 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger (2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". New York Yankees 54 536 [34]
Script error: No such module "Sort". New York Yankees 61^ 275 [35]
1965 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger (2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". San Francisco Giants 52 660 [33]
1977 Script error: No such module "Sort". Cincinnati Reds 52 348 [36]
1990 Script error: No such module "Sort". Detroit Tigers 51 319 [37]
1995 Script error: No such module "Sort". Cleveland Indians 50 381 [38]
1996 Script error: No such module "Sort". Baltimore Orioles 50 210 [39]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Oakland Athletics 52 583 [40]
1997 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger Seattle Mariners 56 630 [41]
Script error: No such module "Sort". (2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Oakland Athletics
St. Louis Cardinals		 58 583 [40]
1998 Script error: No such module "Sort". San Diego Padres 50 355 [42]
Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger (2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Seattle Mariners 56 630 [41]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Chicago Cubs 66 609 [43]
Script error: No such module "Sort". (3)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". St. Louis Cardinals 70^ 583 [40]
1999 Script error: No such module "Sort". (2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Chicago Cubs 63 609 [43]
Script error: No such module "Sort". (4)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". St. Louis Cardinals 65 583 [40]
2000 Script error: No such module "Sort". (3)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Chicago Cubs 50 609 [43]
2001 Script error: No such module "Sort". Texas Rangers 52 696 [44]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Arizona Diamondbacks 57 354 [45]
Script error: No such module "Sort". (4)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Chicago Cubs 64 609 [43]
Script error: No such module "Sort". San Francisco Giants 73^ 762 [46]
2002 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger Cleveland Indians 52 612 [47]
Script error: No such module "Sort". (2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Texas Rangers 57 696 [44]
2005 Script error: No such module "Sort". Atlanta Braves 51 434 [48]
2006 Script error: No such module "Sort". Philadelphia Phillies 58 382 [7]
Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Dagger Boston Red Sox 54 541 [49]
2007 Script error: No such module "Sort". (3)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". New York Yankees 54 696 [44]
Script error: No such module "Sort". Milwaukee Brewers 50 319 [50]
2010 Script error: No such module "Sort". Toronto Blue Jays 54 344 [51]
2013 Script error: No such module "Sort". Baltimore Orioles 53 295 [52], [53]
2017 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Double-dagger Miami Marlins 59 429 [54]
Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Double-dagger New York Yankees 52 342 [55]
2019 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Double-dagger New York Mets 53 244 [56]
2022 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Double-dagger (2)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". New York Yankees 62 342 [55]
2023 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Double-dagger Atlanta Braves 54 275 [57]
2024 Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Double-dagger (3)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". New York Yankees 58 342 [55]
Script error: No such module "Sort".Template:Double-dagger Los Angeles Dodgers 54 251 [58]

See also

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References

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