Hank Aaron

Trivia

Despite hitting more career home runs than any other player, Hank Aaron's single-season high was 47. This figure puts him in a tie for the 64th-best season mark by a hitter. His second-best total, 45, is only tied for 100th-best.

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Although Hank Aaron is still the all time home run hitter in Major League Baseball, he is second under former Japanese baseball player Sadaharu Oh (868) as the all time home run hitter in recorded baseball history (Negro League player Josh Gibson was said to have also hit well over 800 home runs, but recordkeeping in the Negro Leagues was fragmentary).

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Major League Baseball - Japanese - Sadaharu Oh - Negro League - Josh Gibson

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For 50 years, from 1954 to 2004, Henry Aaron was baseball's premiere player.... from an alphabetical standpoint. (In an uncategorizable oddity, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar still holds the same position in the NBA. The odds are lengthy that baseball's all-time HR and RBI leader would also happen to be its all-time #1 alphabetical player; that the NBA's points leader held the same distinction is astronomically unlikely.)

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1954 - 2004 - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - NBA

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Incidentally, Aaron's brother Tommie was #2 in this esoteric category. Both Aarons were bumped down one notch in baseball's player register in April 2004, when San Francisco Giants relief pitcher David Aardsma made his debut.

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April - 2004 - San Francisco Giants - David Aardsma

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