CAREER LEADERS FOR GRAND SLAMS
The MLB Top 1,000 Career Grand Slams Leaders | Baseball Almanac
Listed below are the top 1,000 grand slam hitters in Major Leauge history, players that made it their career terrorizing pitchers when they stepped to the plate. Each of these greats has hit the really big one — not just your regular every day home run, but the all exciting, game altering, grand slam.
Alex Rodriguez First Grand Slam Game Used Bat
Baseball Almanac is pleased to present the top 1,000 all-time career leaders in grand slams. Note: A bold faced entry denotes that the player was active during the previous Major League season.
"I'm a huge fan of Lou Gehrig, everything he's done, going back to his college days in New York. He's kind of the gold standard for a Yankee. It's a special moment (Passing him on this research set)." - Rodriguez, Alex. Post Game Press Conference. Yankee Stadium. 20 September 2013.
Want to read about a truly rare and fabulous batting / grand slam feat? See which major league ballplayers have hit two grand slams during a single game.
Davey Johnson of the Philadelphia Phillies and Mike Ivie of the San Francisco Giants are the only two National League hitters to ever have two pinch-hit grand slams during a single season and they both did it during the 1978 season.
In 1999, two new grand slam records were set: Fernando Tatis became the first player in Major League history to hit two grand slams during a single inning and Robin Ventura became the first player in Major League history to hit a grand slam during each end of a doubleheader. In 2013, Alex Rodriguez passed Lou Gehrig to become the new all-time grand slam leader in Major League history.
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