Who had a better career slugging percentage, Babe Ruth or Barry Bonds?

mayneeyak

Top 10 Major League Baseball players for lifetime OPS having minimum 3,000 plate appearances through May 28, 2012 1.Babe Ruth, 1.1638 2.Ted Williams, 1.1155 3.Lou Gehrig, 1.0798 4.Barry Bonds, 1.0512 5.Jimmie Foxx, 1.0376 6.Albert Pujols, 1.0264 7.Hank Greenberg, 1.0169 8.Rogers Hornsby, 1.0103 9.Manny Ramírez, 0.9970 10.Mark McGwire, 0.9823 So Babe Ruth was 1st all-time and Barry Bonds comes in at 4th all-time. For top single season performances, the top ten are as follows: 1.Barry Bonds, 1.4217 (2004) 2.Babe Ruth, 1.3818 (1920) 3.Barry Bonds, 1.3807 (2002) 4.Barry Bonds, 1.3785 (2001) 5.Babe Ruth, 1.3586 (1921) 6.Babe Ruth, 1.3089 (1923) 7.Ted Williams, 1.2875 (1941) 8.Barry Bonds, 1.2778 (2003) 9.Babe Ruth, 1.2582 (1927) 10.Ted Williams, 1.2566 (1957) So Bonds has the single season record at 1.4217 in 2004 and Babe Ruth holds the #2 position with 1.3828 from 1920. *These statistics come from Wikipedia as of 2012 being the latest year the statistics have been kept so far. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-base_plus_slugging Dec 25 12, 5:38 AM

kevinatilusa

On the other hand, if you just care about slugging percentage: Barry Bonds has a career average of 0.607 (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/b/bondsba01.shtml ) Babe Ruth has a career average of 0.690 (http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/r/ruthba01.shtml ) Dec 25 12, 2:47 PM

hippo22

from what i read , it was babe ruth. Dec 26 12, 11:04 AM