http://bleacherreport.com/ Bleacher Report - The open source sports network en-us 30 Kornheiser's Cartel <p><a href="http://www.kornheiserscartel.com/photos/Ross_Barnes_Baseball_Player.jpg"><img src="http://www.kornheiserscartel.com/photos/Ross_Barnes_Baseball_Player.jpg" border="0" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" /></a><br />Thanks to the guys over at <a href="http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/380">BaseballReference.com</a>, it has now come to my attention that Major League Baseball is on the verge of its 250,000th home run of all time.<br /><br />That's a quarter of a million dingers for those of you who get flummoxed by numerous zeroes.<br /><br />It all started on May 2, 1876 when <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Barnes">Ross Barnes</a> (pictured) of the Chicago White Stockings (Chicago Cubs) took <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Fisher">Cherokee Fisher</a> of the Cincinatti Reds yard. BaseballReference doesn't count postseason homers in this stat, as far as I can tell, so some may argue that we have already eclipsed this milestone. However if you go with their numbers we stand at 249,810 through the end of August 31st.<br /><br />Who will hit the historic shot? Only time will tell, but an interesting side note to these numbers is that one-fifth of the 250,000 have been hit since 1999, only nine years ago.</p> Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:16:00 -0400 http://bleacherreport.com/articles/53479-mlbs-250000th-home-run http://bleacherreport.com/articles/53479-mlbs-250000th-home-run http://bleacherreport.com/articles/53479-mlbs-250000th-home-run Baseball MLB MLB Histor