mindboggling did you know

[statman]

with help from another site i added how many home runs have been hit from 1871-2011


266'331


WOW!!!

[ipitch]

with help from another site i added how many home runs have been hit from 1871-2011

266'331

WOW!!!

More big numbers!:

http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/

Major League Historical Totals (1871-present)
There is dispute over whether to include the National Association as a Major League
Years: 142
Games: 202,789
Runs: 1,845,556
At Bats: 13,874,263
Hits: 3,637,077
Home Runs: 268,311
Doubles: 611,221
Triples: 129,258
Stolen Bases: 290,933
Innings: 3,616,997
Strikeouts: 1,928,801
Walks: 1,282,313
Hit Batsmen: 98,653
Saves: 62,149
Errors: 515,785
Double Plays: 359,517
Players: 17,881
Managers: 676

Data is summed based on data available and
may be missing some stats for some years.

[GiambiJuice]

So there have been 17,881 players and the 25 members of the 500-home run club have accounted for 5.5% of all home runs hit since 1871.

Not bad.

[Ben Grimm]

Looks like we'll see 1,935,000 strikeouts by the end of this season. That puts 2,000,000 around the end of 2014. I'm sure if Vegas has a line on it, the hitter with the best odds of being Mr 2M will be Adam Dunn and the pitcher will likely be Verlander or Felix.