MAJOR LEAGUE HITTING LEADERS

Statistical Hitting Leaders
As Of July 6, 2008

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Home Runs

All Time Leaders Active Leaders

Barry Bonds 762 Ken Griffey, Jr (6th All Time) 604

Hank Aaron 755 Alex Rodriguez (14th All Time) 535

Babe Ruth 714 Jim Thome (16th All Time) 523

Willie Mays 660 Frank Thomas (19th All Time) 520

Sammy Sosa 609 Manny Ramirez (23rd All Time) 506

Hits

All Time Leaders Active Leaders

Pete Rose 4,256 Ken Griffey, Jr (68th All Time) 2,629

Ty Cobb 4,191 Omar Vizquel (69th All Time) 2,620

Hank Aaron 3,771 Ivan Rodriguez (78th All Time) 2,570

Stan Musial 3,630 Luis Gonzalez (79th All Time) 2,565

Tris Speaker 3,514 Gary Sheffield (80th All Time) 2,562

Runs Batted In

All Time Leaders Active Leaders

Hank Aaron 2,297 Ken Griffey, Jr (18th All Time) 1,739

Babe Ruth 2,213 Frank Thomas (21st All Time) 1,701

Cap Anson 2,076 Manny Ramirez (24th All Time) 1,657

Barry Bonds 1,996 Gary Sheffield (32nd All Time) 1,594

Lou Gehrig 1,995 Alex Rodriguez (39th All Time) 1,552

Doubles

All Time Leaders Active Leaders

Tris Speaker 792 Luis Gonzalez (16th All Time) 584

Pete Rose 746 Jeff Kent (22nd All Time) 552

Stan Musial 725 Ivan Rodriguez (36th All Time) 519

Ty Cobb 723 Frank Thomas (51st All Time) 493

Craig Biggio 668 Ken Griffey, Jr (54th All Time) 488

Triples

All Time Leaders Active Leaders

Sam Crawford† 309 Johnny Damon (205th All Time) 90

Ty Cobb 297 Jimmy Rollins (239th All Time) 85

Honus Wagner 252 Ray Durham (280th All Time) 79

Jake Beckley† 243 Carl Crawford (280th All Time) 79

Roger Connor 233 Cristian Guzman (317th All Time) 75

Total Bases

All Time Leaders Active Leaders

Hank Aaron 6,856 Ken Griffey, Jr (18th All Time) 5,003

Stan Musial 6,134 Frank Thomas (37th All Time) 4,525

Willie Mays 6,066 Gary Sheffield (38th All Time) 4,514

Barry Bonds 5,976 Alex Rodriguez (46th All Time) 4,400

Ty Cobb 5,859 Luis Gonzalez (48th All Time) 4,338

These hitting leaders are some of the greatest hitters of all time.

Those several players technically have a status of active, such as Barry Bonds and Sammy Sosa, their stats are not found among the active leaders because they have not played a game in 2008.

† = extended bio page linked for player