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.
"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 (Cohen, Robert W. The 50 Most Dynamic Duos in Sports History: Baseball, Basketball, Football, and Hockey. Scarecrow Press Publishers. 15 November 2012. Page 53.)
Stealing Home BaseMajor League Baseball Records for Stealing Home Base |
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Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
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 | |||
Record | LG | Name(s) | Team(s) | Data | |
Stealing Home Base Records | Research by Baseball Almanac |
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.