Inside The Park Home Run Records

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for inside the park home runs — including most inside the park home runs during a career, most inside the park home runs in a s single season and game related inside the park home run records.

"We'd play a whole game with one ball, if it stayed in the park. Lopsided and black and full of tobacco juice and licorice stains." - Sam Crawford in The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It (Lawrence S. Ritter, Harper Perennial Publishers, Page 56)
Inside The Park Home Run Records

Career Inside The Park Home Run Records

Record Lg Name(s) Team(s) Data

Most
In A Career

AL

Ty Cobb

Detroit

46

46

Philadelphia

0

NL

Tommy Leach

Louisville

3

48

Pittsburgh

34

Chicago

11

Cincinnati

0

ML

Jesse Burkett

New York [NL]

1

55

Cleveland [NL]

23

St. Louis [NL]

19

St. Louis [AL]

8

Boston [AL]

4

Inside The Park Home Run Records

Single Season Inside The Park Home Run Records

Record Lg Name(s) Team(s) Data

Most
In A Season

AL

Ty Cobb

Detroit

9

1909
NL

Sam Crawford

Cincinnati

12

1901
Inside The Park Home Run Records

Game Specific Inside The Park Home Run Records

Record Lg Name(s) Team(s) Data

Most
In A Game

AL

Dick Allen

Chicago

2 07-31-1972

Chief Bender

Philadelphia

05-08-1906

Roger Bresnahan

Baltimore

05-30-1902

Ben Chapman

New York

07-09-1932

Ty Cobb

Detroit

07-15-1909

Monte Cross

Philadelphia

04-28-1902

Hobe Ferris

Boston

05-04-1903

Jack Fournier

Chicago

08-31-1914

Greg Gagne

Minnesota

10-04-1986

Larry Gardner

Boston

07-02-1912

Danny Hoffman

Philadelphia

05-12-1904

Hal Janvrin

Boston

10-04-1913

Willie Keeler

New York

08-24-1904

Stuffy McInnis

Philadelphia

08-14-1912

Ben Paschal

New York

09-22-1925

Carl Reynolds

Chicago

07-02-1930

Heinie Wagner

Boston

08-22-1907
NL Tom McCreery Louisville 3 07-12-1897
Players
With 1 in 1st AB
AL Luke Stuart St. Louis 1 08-08-1921
NL Johnnie LeMaster San Francisco 1 09-02-1975

Players
With 2-In-1 Game

AL

Dick Allen

Chicago

2 07-31-1972

Chief Bender

Philadelphia

05-08-1906

Roger Bresnahan

Baltimore

05-30-1902

Ben Chapman

New York

07-09-1932

Ty Cobb

Detroit

07-15-1909

Monte Cross

Philadelphia

04-28-1902

Hobe Ferris

Boston

05-04-1903

Jack Fournier

Chicago

08-31-1914

Greg Gagne

Minnesota

10-04-1986

Larry Gardner

Boston

07-02-1912

Danny Hoffman

Philadelphia

05-12-1904

Hal Janvrin

Boston

10-04-1913

Willie Keeler

New York

08-24-1904

Stuffy McInnis

Philadelphia

08-14-1912

Ben Paschal

New York

09-22-1925

Carl Reynolds

Chicago

07-02-1930

Heinie Wagner

Boston

08-22-1907
NL

Ginger Beaumont

Pittsburgh

2 07-16-1903

Beals Becker

Philadelphia

06-09-1913

Roger Bresnahan

New York

06-06-1904

Dan Brouthers

Buffalo

08-10-1882

Dan Brouthers

Detroit

09-10-1886

Jesse Burkett

St. Louis

08-28-1899

Jesse Burkett

St. Louis

07-08-1900

George Cutshaw

Brooklyn

08-04-1913

Kiki Cuyler

Pittsburgh

08-28-1925

Tom Daly

Brooklyn

07-08-1894

George Davis

New York

07-08-1901

Ed Delahanty

Philadelphia

06-01-1893

Ed Delahanty

Philadelphia

07-13-1896

Mike Donlin

St. Louis

10-05-1900

Larry Doyle

New York

09-08-1909

Hugh Duffy

Boston

08-09-1899

Duke Farrell

Pittsburgh

07-06-1892

Topsy Hartsel

Chicago

08-05-1901

Joe Hornung

Boston

06-09-1883

Joe Kelley

Baltimore

08-16-1895

George Kelly

New York

04-29-1922

Billy Klusman

Boston

07-17-1888

Ed Konetchy

St. Louis

08-05-1912

Tommy Leach

Pittsburgh

05-21-1903

Rabbit Maranville

Boston

07-01-1919

Bill McKechnie

Pittsburgh

09-02-1911

Terry Moore

St. Louis

08-16-1939

Morrie Rath

Cincinnati

09-20-1920

Jimmy Sebring

Pittsburgh

04-23-1903

Cy Seymour

Cincinnati

09-24-1905

Homer Smoot

St. Louis

04-25-1902

Casey Stengel

Brooklyn

05-01-1913

Hank Thompson

New York

08-16-1950

Honus Wagner

Louisville

07-30-1899
Record Lg Name(s) Team(s) Data

Inside The Park Home Run Records



On May 30, 1902, Roger Bresnahan hit two inside the park home runs during a game with Baltimore of the American League. On June 6, 1904, Bresnahan became the first player with two inside the park home runs during a game from each league when he belted two with New York of the National League.

Due to the lack of records a top one-hundred list is very challenging, but we are pleased to present a top twenty list where each player hit more than twenty-three career inside the park home runs:

Top 20 Career
Inside the Park Home Run Hitters

1

Jesse Burkett

55

2

Sam Crawford

51

3

Tommy Leach

48

4

Ty Cobb

46

 

Honus Wagner

46

6

Jake Beckley

38

 

Tris Speaker

38

8

Rogers Hornsby

33

9

Edd Roush

31

10

Jake Daubert

30

 

Willie Keeler

30

12

Chief Wilson

29

13

Fred Clarke

28

 

Ed Konetchy

28

15

Ginger Beaumont

27

 

Max Carey

27

 

Mike Donlin

27

 

Hobe Ferris

27

 

Harry Stovey

27

20

Buck Freeman

24

 

Cy Seymour

24

The last player from the American League to connect twice with inside the park home runs during the same game was Greg Gagne of the Minnesota Twins on October 4, 1986. The last player from the National League was Hank Thompson of the New York Giants on August 16, 1950.

     

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