Henry Aaron! Barry Bonds! Josh Phelps? The Dwelling Run King for All 50 States

We all know who MLB’s all-time dwelling run leaders are. Go forward, you’ll be able to most likely rattle off most, if not all, of the highest 10 proper now with out trying them up. 

On this Fourth of July, although, let’s take a look at the house run leaders from a distinct perspective. It’s America’s birthday this week, so let’s see who the house run chief is in every of the 50 states (and likewise the District of Columbia). 

These dwelling run leaders will not be distributed equally. Some states have produced far, much more gamers than others, and a few was once a relative hotbed of recent gamers, however aren’t any longer, or by no means have been and nonetheless aren’t. That’s the enjoyable of this train, nonetheless: The place else will you ever see Chase Headley on the listing of all-time dwelling run leaders? Or have a purpose to know that Phil Plantier hails from the Granite State?

In your pre-fireworks pleasure, we’ve assembled a visible support within the type of a map, in addition to a bunch of varied notes that got here out of staring on the map and the statistics that introduced it to life. The map is color-coded, supplying you with a take a look at roughly what number of dwelling runs the varied state leaders have produced — the total chart with actual figures will be discovered on the backside of the article.

Seize a sizzling canine and/or a burger, sit down and see who has set off probably the most fireworks in every of the 50 states.

Barry Bonds — the all-time dwelling run chief and California’s consultant — hit 762 homers in his profession, greater than the mixed output of the leaders of Alaska, Maine, New Hampshire, Utah, Montana, Colorado and Wyoming (731). If you happen to throw the state with the next-lowest chief on the pile, South Dakota, then the mixed effort passes Bonds, however nonetheless loses to Japan’s all-time dwelling run chief, Sadaharu Oh (868). That’s not the USA, no, nevertheless it’s nonetheless enjoyable.

Bonds out-homered whole states, not simply numerous all-time leaders: Alaska (85), Colorado (615), Hawaii (588), Idaho (749), Maine (256), Montana (211), New Hampshire (330), North Dakota (412), South Dakota (322), Utah (178), Vermont (568), Wyoming (478) and the District of Columbia (697) for good measure. 

California not solely sports activities the all-time dwelling run chief, however, because the state with probably the most MLB gamers — California has produced 2,510 gamers, whereas second-place Pennsylvania is simply over 1,000 gamers behind — it’s additionally the house of probably the most 300-homer gamers. The highest 5, in ascending order: Alabama, Maryland, and Illinois with six, New York and Pennsylvania with seven, Texas with 10, Florida with 11, and California with … 30. 

Eight of these 30 have a minimum of 400 dwelling runs, which can be good for first among the many 50 states (and one nation’s capital). Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas and Florida are tied for second with 4 such gamers. Maryland and Pennsylvania (two), Alabama and Texas (three) and California (4) are the top-5 for gamers with a minimum of 500 profession homers. Moreover Bonds, California additionally boasts Mark McGwire (563), Ted Williams (521) and Eddie Murray (504).

Barry Bonds will not be solely the MLB’s all-time dwelling run king, however he is additionally out-homered 12 states and Washington D.C. (Tom Hauck/Allsport)

Josh Phelps not solely leads Alaska in dwelling runs, however he’s chargeable for 75% of its lengthy ball manufacturing. Just one different participant born in Alaska — Randy Kutcher, who performed from 1986 to 1990 — has reached 10 profession dingers. There are not any lively gamers from Alaska, both, so it could be some time earlier than anybody passes Phelps, who can be the state’s hit chief with 380. Second place? Curt Schilling, with 117 hits. No dwelling runs for Schilling, which shouldn’t be a shock, however he has given up extra lengthy balls than anybody else from the state by advantage of throwing two-thirds of Alaska’s innings.

Ryan Zimmerman is the chief in North Carolina, however just for now. It’s not simply that 284 is a surmountable complete, however that it’s prone to be handed by a minimum of considered one of two lively gamers. Corey Seager is the present chief amongst lively North Carolinians, and he’s solely simply turned 31 years previous. Seager has hit a minimum of 30 homers three years in a row, and whereas he’s gone yard simply 11 occasions in 2025, that’s as a result of a few IL journeys for a hamstring pressure. Oh, and Cal Raleigh is subsequent up, with 126 homers. He’s 28, however in his three full seasons he’s hit 27, 30, and 34 homers, and at the moment leads MLB with 33 dingers.

Eight states lack an lively dwelling run chief, both as a result of there isn’t a one from that state at the moment within the majors, or as a result of whoever is within the majors from that state doesn’t have a house run. That listing is made up of Vermont, Arkansas, West Virginia, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Maine and Alaska.

All however one U.S.-born participant with a minimum of 600 homers is from a distinct state: Barry Bonds (762) is from California, Henry Aaron (755) from Alabama, Babe Ruth (714) from Maryland, Alex Rodriguez (696) from New York, Ken Griffey Jr. (630) from Pennsylvania and Jim Thome (612) from Illinois. The lone repeat state? Alabama, which additionally produced Willie Mays (660). Albert Pujols (703) and Sammy Sosa (609) spherical out the 600-plus membership, with each gamers from the Dominican Republic. 

Connecticut is at the moment Mo Vaughn’s because of 328 homers, however George Springer is the lively chief with 274. He doesn’t go deep as usually as he did in his youthful years, however one other 55 homers for the 35-year-old earlier than he calls it a profession is probably going, given he averaged 22 dingers per 12 months from 2022-2024. Mookie Betts, with 280 homers, is simply 89 behind Todd Helton for first in Tennessee historical past: even when his energy isn’t what it was once, both, he’s nonetheless simply 32 years previous. 

Arizona is much more prone to swap palms, as Ian Kinsler (257) is simply 49 homers forward of Cody Bellinger’s 208. John Buck holds Wyoming for now with 134, however Brandon Nimmo (126) is correct behind him. Jared Triolo, born in New Hampshire, has simply 15 profession homers in 230 video games. Nonetheless, he’s chasing Phil Plantier, who didn’t crack 100 bombs. Can Triolo make it to 92 and a brand new New Hampshire file earlier than he’s achieved?

This one could be more durable, given the stadium he’s prone to spend the remainder of his profession in, however Manny Machado is 154 homers behind Gary Sheffield for management of Florida. Can Machado crack 500 homers and hit one other 10 for good measure? It’s attainable, similar to 3,000 hits is feasible, however “attainable” will not be the identical factor as positively for a virtually 33-year-old ballplayer.

Bryce Harper is each the all-time and lively chief for Nevada, at 345. Mike Trout (391) is in the identical scenario for New Jersey, whereas Paul Goldschmidt (370) sits on each thrones in Delaware. Goldschmidt, by the best way, will doubtless attain 400 dwelling runs earlier than anybody else from Delaware even will get to 100: John Mabry, Randy Bush and Dave Might all completed their careers with 96, a determine Goldschmidt handed again in Might 2015. 

Mike Trout and Bryce Harper are their respective dwelling states’ dwelling run kings.(Picture by Wealthy Graessle/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photographs)

The biggest hole between the all-time chief and the lively chief for a state is Alabama: Henry Aaron’s 755 is the second-most anyplace, and it’s additionally 657 extra lengthy balls than Tim Anderson has hit in his profession. 

Max Muncy and Randal Grichuk haven’t any actual hope of catching Frank Robinson — with 586 dwelling runs, he’s not simply probably the most in Texas however the Tenth-most in MLB historical past — however they’re in a battle to be the lively chief. Muncy is at 208 lengthy balls, and Grichuk 207 — by the top of their careers, they’ll doubtless be forward of Robinson if you happen to mix them collectively. 

Lastly, New England and its tiny states will not be essentially identified for producing baseball gamers in the best way that California or Texas and so forth are, a minimum of not for the reason that early days of MLB earlier than it really grew to become a nationwide recreation. And whereas New Hampshire and Maine have little to contribute in the best way of homers both traditionally or lately, Connecticut has Mo Vaughn (328, thirtieth), Vermont has Carlton Fisk (376, twenty first), Rhode Island has Paul Konerko (439, seventeenth) and Massachusetts has Jeff Bagwell (449, fifteenth). 

And now, the house run leaders by state, in desk kind, sorted from probably the most lengthy balls to the fewest:

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