50 home run club

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. 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. Ruth subsequently became the first player to reach the 50 home run club on four occasions, repeating the achievement in 1921, 1927, and 1928. 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. Only 7 players, Babe Ruth, Ken Griffey Jr, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Alex Rodriguez, Aaron Judge, and Shohei Ohtani, have hit 50 home runs in consecutive seasons. Barry Bonds hit the most home runs to join the club, collecting 73 in 2001. Most recently, for the first time in over two decades, four players hit 50 home runs in the 2025 season: Shohei Ohtani, Cal Raleigh, Kyle Schwarber, and Aaron Judge (his fourth season of the milestone).

In total, 34 players have reached the 50 home run club in MLB history and eleven have done so more than once. Of these, seventeen were right-handed batters, fourteen were left-handed, and two were switch hitters, meaning they could bat from either side of the plate. Four of these players (including two active members of the 50 home run club) have played for only one major league team. Of the thirty MLB teams, twenty-two have seen one of their players reach the milestone, with the Chicago White Sox, Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Angels, Minnesota Twins, Tampa Bay Rays, and Washington Nationals being the teams to never have a player reach the mark. 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 and two of them (Willie Mays and Rodriguez) are also members of the 3,000 hit club. Ten players won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award in the same year as their 50 home run season. 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). 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. Albert Belle is the only player to amass 50 or more doubles in addition to attaining 50 home runs. Prince Fielder, at 23 years and 139 days, was the youngest player to reach the milestone while Bonds, at age 37, was the oldest. 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" in 1954, when there were only six members. Of the 25 members eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame, eleven have been elected and six were elected on the first ballot. Eligibility requires that a player has "been retired five seasons" or deceased for at least six months, disqualifying seven 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; fifteen players joined the club on a total of 24 occasions from 1995 to 2010. Additionally, several of the members who entered the club during that time have had ties to performance-enhancing drugs.

Members

**Year**	**Player (n)**	**Team**	**HR**	**Career**	^
The year the player's 50 home run season occurred
Name of the player and number of 50 home run seasons they had accomplished at that point
The player's team for his 50 home run season
Number of home runs in that season
The number of home runs the player hit in his MLB career
Denotes single-season home run record progression
Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
Player is active
Ongoing season

Year	Player	Team	HR	Career	Ref		(2)	(3)	(4)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(2)	(3)	(2)	(4)	(3)	(4)	(2)	(3)	(2)	(3)	(2)	(4)
	New York Yankees	54	714	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml	title=Babe Ruth Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=July 3, 2012	archive-date=July 12, 2022	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220712014016/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml	url-status=live}}
	New York Yankees	59	714
	New York Yankees	60	714
	New York Yankees	54	714
	Chicago Cubs	56	244
	Philadelphia Athletics	58	534	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/foxxji01.shtml	title=Jimmie Foxx Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=July 15, 2010	archive-date=April 12, 2009	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412052533/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/f/foxxji01.shtml	url-status=live}}
	Boston Red Sox	50	534
Detroit Tigers	58	331
	New York Giants	51	359
Pittsburgh Pirates	51	369	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kinerra01.shtml	title=Ralph Kiner Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=December 3, 2013	archive-date=November 13, 2013	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131113064722/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/k/kinerra01.shtml	url-status=live}}
	Pittsburgh Pirates	54	369
	New York Giants	51	660	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mayswi01.shtml	title=Willie Mays Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=July 3, 2012	archive-date=April 13, 2009	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090413190522/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mayswi01.shtml	url-status=live}}
	New York Yankees	52	536	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mantlmi01.shtml	title=Mickey Mantle Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=July 3, 2012	archive-date=March 28, 2018	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328060816/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mantlmi01.shtml	url-status=live}}
	New York Yankees	54	536
New York Yankees	61	275
	San Francisco Giants	52	660
	Cincinnati Reds	52	348
	Detroit Tigers	51	319
	Cleveland Indians	50	381
	Baltimore Orioles	50	210
Oakland Athletics	52	583	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcgwima01.shtml	title=Mark McGwire Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=July 15, 2010	archive-date=January 4, 2010	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100104095425/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mcgwima01.shtml	url-status=live}}
	Seattle Mariners	56	630	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/griffke02.shtml	title=Ken Griffey Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=July 3, 2012	archive-date=December 4, 2010	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101204014320/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/griffke02.shtml	url-status=live}}
Oakland Athletics
St. Louis Cardinals	58	583
	San Diego Padres	50	355
Seattle Mariners	56	630
Chicago Cubs	66	609	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sosasa01.shtml	title=Sammy Sosa Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=July 3, 2012	archive-date=May 2, 2012	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120502062334/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/sosasa01.shtml	url-status=live}}
St. Louis Cardinals	70	583
	Chicago Cubs	63	609
St. Louis Cardinals	65	583
	Chicago Cubs	50	609
	Texas Rangers	52	696	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodrial01.shtml	title=Alex Rodriguez Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=July 3, 2012	archive-date=July 12, 2010	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100712225632/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/rodrial01.shtml	url-status=live}}
Arizona Diamondbacks	57	354
Chicago Cubs	64	609
San Francisco Giants	73	762
	Cleveland Indians	52	612
Texas Rangers	57	696
	Atlanta Braves	51	434
	Philadelphia Phillies	58	382	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/howarry01.shtml	title=Ryan Howard Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=July 3, 2012	archive-date=October 9, 2011	archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009020224/http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/h/howarry01.shtml	url-status=live}}
Boston Red Sox	54	541
	New York Yankees	54	696
Milwaukee Brewers	50	319
	Toronto Blue Jays	54	344
	Baltimore Orioles	53	295	,
	Miami Marlins	59	453
New York Yankees	52	368	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/j/judgeaa01.shtml	title=Aaron Judge Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=September 24, 2025}}
	New York Mets	53	264
	New York Yankees	62	368
	Atlanta Braves	54	288
	New York Yankees	58	368
Los Angeles Dodgers	54	280	url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/o/ohtansh01.shtml	title=Shohei Ohtani Statistics and History	work=Baseball-Reference.com	publisher=Sports Reference LLC	access-date=September 21, 2025}}
	Seattle Mariners	60	153
Philadelphia Phillies	56	340
Los Angeles Dodgers	55	280
New York Yankees	53	368