Stealing Home Base Records by Baseball Almanac

Stealing Home Base Records

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

"I never saw anyone like Ty Cobb. No one even close to him. He was the greatest all time ballplayer. That guy was superhuman, amazing." - Casey Stengel

Stealing Home Career Records
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Most In A Career	AL	Ty Cobb	Detroit	50	54
	AL	Ty Cobb	Philadelphia	4	54
	NL	Max Carey	Pittsburgh	31	33
	NL	Max Carey	Brooklyn	2	33
Stealing Home Single Season Records
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Most In A Season	AL	Ty Cobb	Detroit	8	1912
Most In A Season	NL	Pete Reiser	Brooklyn	7	1946
Stealing Home Game Records
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Most 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
Record	Lg	Name(s)	Team(s)	Data
Stealing Home Records

Stealing home plate is NOT an officially recorded statistic so research into this unusual feat is still considered on-going. Here is a list of players who had at least ten (10) 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	Buck Herzog	10
	Jimmy Johnston	10
	Rabbit Maranville	10
	Paul Molitor	10
	Babe Ruth	10
	Billy Werber	10
	Ross Youngs	10
Stealing Home Plate Ten Times in a Career

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The last National League player to steal second, then third, then home plate during the same inning was Eric Young of the Colorado Rockies on June 30, 1996. The last American League player to steal second, then third, then home plate during the same inning was Chris Stynes of the Kansas City Royals on May 12, 1996. The career record for these larcenous occurrences are four (4) in the American League by Ty Cobb and three (3) in the National League by Honus Wagner.

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