STEALING HOME BASE RECORDS

Major League Baseball Records for Stealing Home Base | Baseball Almanac

Baseball Almanac is pleased to present a record book full of baseball milestones for stealing home plate — including career stealing home base records, single season stealing home base records and game related stealing home base records. Research by Baseball Almanac.

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Stealing Home Base

Major League Baseball Records for Stealing Home Base

Most Steals of Home
In A Career
AL Ty Cobb Detroit 50 54
Philadelphia 4
NL Max Carey Pittsburgh 31 33
Brooklyn 2
Most Steals of Home
In A Season
AL Ty Cobb Detroit 8 1912
NL Pete Reiser Brooklyn 7 1946
Most Steals of Home
In A Game
AL Bill Barrett Chicago 2 05-01-1924
Eddie Collins Philadelphia 09-06-1913
Joe Jackson Cleveland 08-11-1912
Vic Power Cleveland 08-14-1958
Guy Zinn New York 08-15-1912
NL Larry Doyle New York 2 09-18-1911
Doc Gautreau Boston 09-03-1927
Ed Konetchy St. Louis 09-30-1907
Sherry Magee Philadelphia 07-20-1912
Joe Tinker Chicago 06-28-1910
Honus Wagner Pittsburgh 06-20-1901
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Stealing home plate is NOT an officially recorded statistic so research into this unusual baserunning feat is still considered on-going. Here is a list of players who had at least ten documented steals of home during their career:

Stealing Home Plate Ten Times in a Career
     
1 Ty Cobb 54
2 Max Carey 33
3 George Burns 28
4 Honus Wagner 27
5 Sherry Magee 23
  Frank Schulte 23
7 Johnny Evers 21
8 George Sisler 20
9 Frankie Frisch 19
  Jackie Robinson 19
11 Jim Sheckard 18
  Tris Speaker 18
  Joe Tinker 18
14 Rod Carew 17
  Eddie Collins 17
  Larry Doyle 17
17 Tommy Leach 16
18 Ben Chapman 15
  Fred Clarke 15
  Lou Gehrig 15
21 Bobby Byrne 14
  Fritz Maisel 14
  Fred Merkle 14
  Vic Saier 14
25 Heinie Zimmerman 13
26 Donie Bush 12
  Sam Rice 12
28 Shano Collins 11
  Harry Hooper 11
  George Moriarty 11
  Braggo Roth 11
32 Jose Cardenal 10
  Buck Herzog 10
  Jimmy Johnston 10
  Rabbit Maranville 10
  Paul Molitor 10
  Babe Ruth 10
  Billy Werber 10
  Ross Youngs 10

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The last National League player to steal second, then third, then home plate during the same inning was Jon Berti of the Miami Marlins on August 25, 2020. The last American League player to steal second, then third, then home plate during the same inning was Mallex Smith of the Seattle Mariners on May 27, 2019. The career record for these larcenous occurrences are four in the American League by Ty Cobb, and four in the National League by Honus Wagner.