Career HR Leaders by State

A few weeks ago I put together a list of career home run leaders by height. Today I want to do the same for players born in each U.S. state and the District of Columbia.

State	Player	HR	Active Leader	HR
Alabama	Hank Aaron	755	Marlon Anderson	63
Alaska	Josh Phelps	64	Josh Phelps	64
Arizona	Shea Hillenbrand Jack Towell	108	Chris Duncan	46
Arkansas	Brooks Robinson	268	Pat Burrell	227
California	Barry Bonds	762	Jason Giambi	369
Colorado	Johnny Frederick	85	Mark Johnson	16
Connecticut	Mo Vaughn	328	Brad Ausmus	76
Delaware	John Mabry Randy Bush Dave May	96	Kevin Mench	89
District of Columbia	Don Money	176	Emmanuel Burriss	0
Florida	Fred McGriff	493	Gary Sheffield	482
Georgia	Frank Thomas	516	Frank Thomas	516
Hawaii	Mike Lum	90	Shane Victorino	20
Idaho	Harmon Killebrew	573	Jason Schmidt	7
Illinois	Jim Thome	513	Jim Thome	513
Indiana	Gil Hodges	370	Scott Rolen	262
Iowa	Hal Trosky	228	Casey Blake	109
Kansas	Tony Clark	244	Tony Clark	244
Kentucky	Jay Buhner	310	Brad Wilkerson	118
Louisiana	Mel Ott	511	Vernon Wells	161
Maine	Del Bissonette	66	Tim Stauffer	0
Maryland	Babe Ruth	714	Mark Teixeira	174
Massachusetts	Jeff Bagwell	449	Mark Sweeney	42
Michigan	Kirk Gibson John Mayberry	255	Jason Varitek	151
Minnesota	Dave Winfield	465	Dan Johnson	42
Mississippi	Ellis Burks	352	Dmitri Young	167
Missouri	Yogi Berra	358	Ryan Howard	135
Montana	John Lowenstein	116	Rob Johnson	0
Nebraska	Wade Boggs	118	Alex Gordon	18
Nevada	Marty Cordova	122	Justin Leone	6
New Hamphire	Phil Plantier	91	Sam Fuld	0
New Jersey	Eric Karros	284	Derek Jeter	195
New Mexico	Ralph Kiner	369	Cody Ross	27
New York	Alex Rodriguez	522	Alex Rodriguez	522
North Carolina	Ray Durham	187	Ray Durham	187
North Dakota	Travis Hafner	145	Travis Hafner	145
Ohio	Mike Schmidt	548	Aubrey Huff	161
Oklahoma	Mickey Mantle	536	Matt Holliday	107
Oregon	Dave Kingman	442	Richie Sexson	300
Pennsylvania	Ken Griffey Jr.	597	Ken Griffey Jr.	597
Rhode Island	Paul Konerko	281	Paul Konerko	281
South Carolina	Jim Rice	382	Orlando Hudson	63
South Dakota	Mark Ellis	60	Mark Ellis	60
Tennessee	Todd Helton	306	Todd Helton	306
Texas	Frank Robinson	586	Lance Berkman	268
Utah	Duke Sims	100	Chris Shelton	35
Vermont	Carlton Fisk	376	Chris Duffy	6
Virginia	Willie Horton	325	David Wright	102
Washington	Ron Santo	342	Geoff Jenkins	213
West Virginia	George Brett	317	J.R. House	3
Wisconsin	Al Simmons	307	Eric Hinske	91
Wyoming	Mike Devereaux	105	John Buck	55

A few things to note about the active list:

• The active leader for California could potentially change a number of times this year. Though Giambi currently has 369 home runs, Jeff Kent is right behind him at 368, and Jim Edmonds has 363.
• I listed the active leader for Colorado as Mark Johnson even though he hasn't been in the majors since 2004 because he's currently catching for AAA Memphis in the St. Louis Cardinals' farm system. See the quote under the site title above to see how much they think of him. The only other Colorado-born player to have played in the majors since 2004 with a home run is pitcher Brian Lawrence who now pitches for the Camden Riversharks of the Atlantic League.
• Only two people born in Maine have played in the majors and are still active: Tim Stauffer, on the list, is on the Padres' 60-day disabled list and Matt Kinney pitches for the Seibu Lions in Japan.
• Pitchers Brian Wilson, Chris Carpenter, and Chad Paronto are tied with Sam Fuld among active players born in New Hampshire. Lefthander Taylor Tankersley is tied with Rob Johnson among Montanans.
• Orlando Hudson is tops among active South Carolinians so long as Reggie Sanders and Preston Wilson stay unsigned.
• Daric Barton is right behind Chris Duffy among Vermonters with five home runs.