List of top home run hitters by birthplace
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The following is a list of the Major League Baseball players with the highest career total of home runs by birth location. Statistics are current through June 15, 2009. Players in boldface were on an active major league roster in 2009.
| Total number of home runs |
|---|
| ≥ 600 |
| 500-600 |
| 400-499 |
| 300-399 |
| 200-299 |
| 100-199 |
| 0-99 |
Contents |
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United States
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[edit] Territories of the United States
| Birth territory | Player | Career home run total |
|---|---|---|
 American Samoa |
Tony Solaita | 50 |
 District of Columbia |
Don Money | 176 |
 Panama Canal Zone[2] |
Rod Carew | 92 |
 Puerto Rico |
Carlos Delgado | 472 |
 U.S. Virgin Islands |
Elrod Hendricks | 62 |
- John Hattig is a former player for the Toronto Blue Jays and the only major leaguer from
Guam; he hit no home runs in MLB. - Bobby Fenwick was the only MLB player born in the
Ryukyu Islands while they were occupied by the United States after World War II; he hit no home runs during his career. - No player born in the
Northern Mariana Islands has ever played in Major League Baseball.
[edit] Outside the United States
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Canada
| Birth province | Player | Career home run total |
|---|---|---|
 Alberta |
Vince Barton | 16 |
 British Columbia |
Larry Walker | 383 |
 Manitoba |
Corey Koskie | 124 |
 New Brunswick |
Matt Stairs | 257 |
 Northwest Territories |
Fred Osborne[3] | 1 |
 Nova Scotia |
Pop Smith[4] | 24 |
 Ontario |
Jeff Heath | 194 |
 Quebec |
Pete Ward | 98 |
 Saskatchewan |
Terry Puhl | 62 |
- No player born in
Newfoundland and Labrador since it entered Canada in 1949 has played a Major League Baseball game. The only player born in the territory now occupied by Newfoundland and Labrador was 19th century player Jim McKeever, born when Newfoundland was still a British colony (it did not become an independent state until 1907). McKeever did not hit a home run. - Two players born in
Prince Edward Island have appeared in Major League Baseball, both briefly — 19th century player Henry Oxley and 1960s player Vern Handrahan. Neither hit a home run.
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Mexico
| Birth state | Player | Career home run total |
|---|---|---|
 Baja California |
Benji Gil | 32 |
 Chihuahua |
Mario Mendoza | 4 |
 Coahuila |
Andres Mora | 27 |
 Mexican Federal District |
Carlos Rodríguez José Tolentino |
1 |
 Michoacán |
Yovani Gallardo | 4 |
 Nuevo León |
Alex Treviño | 23 |
 Oaxaca |
Vinny Castilla | 320 |
 San Luis Potosí |
Armando Reynoso | 3 |
 Sinaloa |
Jorge Orta | 130 |
 Sonora |
Aurelio Rodríguez | 124 |
 Tamaulipas |
Ismael Valdez | 1 |
 Veracruz |
Bobby Avila | 80 |
 Zacatecas |
Germán Durán | 3 |
[edit] Other Countries
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At least one player was born in each of these countries, but no home runs were hit by any of the players:
Afghanistan, 
Austria, 
Canary Islands, 
China, 
Finland, 
Greece, 
Indonesia, 
Philippines, 
Saudi Arabia, 
Ukraine
The early 20th-century ballplayer Ed Porray was born on a ship in the Atlantic Ocean, but did not hit any career home runs.
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Lum was born in Hawaii when it was still a U.S. territory. The most home runs for a player born in the State of Hawaii is 39 by Benny Agbayani and Shane Victorino.
- ^ The Canal Zone was a U.S. territory from 1903 to 1979, when it was returned to the
Republic of Panama. - ^ Osborne was born in present-day Alberta while it was still a part of the Northwest Territories. Modern-day territories
Yukon and 
Nunavut were carved out of the Northwest Territories in 1898 and 1999, respectively. No player born in either region, or within the current boundaries of the Northwest Territories, has ever appeared in a Major League Baseball game. - ^ Smith was born in Nova Scotia before it was a Canadian province. No player born in the province of Nova Scotia since Confederation has had any kind of extra-base hit.
- ^ Aruba is an autonomous region within the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- ^ The Austro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved in 1918 at the end of World War I.
- ^ Quinn was born in what is now
Slovakia. - ^ Today the independent country of
Belize. - ^ Curaçao is a part of the Netherlands Antilles, an autonomous region within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The Netherlands Antilles was scheduled to be dissolved on December 15, 2008, at which time Curaçao would become its own region with the same status as Aruba; this dissolution is still planned, but has been postponed to an indefinite future date.
- ^ Partitioned in 1993 into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
- ^ Valo was born in what is now Slovakia.
- ^ Blowers was born in the former
West Germany. - ^ Doyle was born in 1869, when the entire island of Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom. His birthplace lies within the modern
Republic of Ireland, which became independent as the Irish Free State in 1922, adopted its current official name of "Ireland" in 1937, and declared itself a republic in 1949. No player born on either side of the Irish border since the independence of what is now the Republic of Ireland has ever appeared in a Major League Baseball game. - ^ This strictly refers to the primary European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. If the entire Kingdom of the Netherlands is considered as one entity, the all-time leading home run hitter born there is Andruw Jones.
- ^ Tener was born in 1863, when the entire island of Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom. His birthplace lies within the modern Northern Ireland, which remained as a part of the United Kingdom when the rest of the island of Ireland became independent as the Irish Free State in 1922. No player born on either side of the Irish border since the independence of what is now the Republic of Ireland has ever appeared in a Major League Baseball game.
- ^ Thomson is the all-time home run leader among players born in the
United Kingdom. - ^ Merged with North Vietnam to create modern-day
Vietnam.
