MLB All-Time Team Records: Most Home Runs Hit in a Season (1871-2019)

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Published on October 3, 2019 8:26:24 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9_2EtE6BE4

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Bar race chart showing Major League Baseball team records for most home runs hit in a season over time. Inspired by the home run race between the Twins and Yankees this season and the start of the MLB playoffs where these two all-time best home run hitting teams will square off in the first round. It turns out 2019 wasn't the only time that the Twins and Yankees held the #1 and #2 spots on the team record list for home runs hit in a season.

Note the lull in new records during the "dead-ball era" of 1900-1919 and the relative frequency of new records during the Babe Ruth era of the 1920's and the power hitting era of the late 1990's. Also note that 6 of the top 10 records for home runs hit in a season by a team over the past ~148 years occurred this year!

I will create more original data viz in the future if people like this.

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Sources:
Data: Baseball Databank 2018 - http://www.seanlahman.com/baseball-archive/statistics/
ESPN (2019 HR Totals) - http://www.espn.com/mlb/stats/team/_/stat/batting/seasontype/2
Logos: sportslogos.net - http://www.sportslogos.net/teams/list_by_year/42018/2018_MLB_Logos/
Music: "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" 1908 Recording by Ed Meeker (Public Domain) -https://archive.org/details/TakeMeOutToTheBallGame_243

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