Most Homers For a World Series Winner

The latest new toy from Baseball-Reference’s Play Index is the ability to condition a search to include only World Series-winning, or pennant-winning, or post-season-participating, teams.  After the jump, a first shot at a very simple search with the new capability. 

Most Regular Season Homers for a Team that Went on to Win the World Series:
61 Roger Maris (1961)
60 Babe Ruth (1927)
57 Luis Gonzalez (2001)
54 Babe Ruth (1928) and Mickey Mantle (1961)
52 Mickey Mantle (1956)
49 Frank Robinson (1966), Albert Pujols (2006) and Lou Gehrig (1936)
48 Mike Schmidt (1980), Willie Stargell (1971) and Ryan Howard (2008)

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AlbaNate
AlbaNate
10 years ago

Where do you find this criteria? How did you do this?

Richard Chester
Richard Chester
10 years ago
Reply to  AlbaNate

I used the Batting Game Finder. Click on most Matching Games in a Season, Team Success Won WS, and set HR equal to or greater than 1. Then click Get Report and then sort the results sheet by HR.