Browsing: Aaron surpassed Babe Ruth’s Aaron’s record of 714 career home runs and two years later

       Major League Baseball outfielder Hank Aaron never hit more than 50 home runs in a season, a mark that some of the top sluggers in baseball history have often surpassed. But Aaron didn’t need to have an eye-popping number of single-season home runs to become the game’s all-time home run leader in 1974.