I saw this in a thread on the Sun Deck yesterday. Gary Sheffield hit the 250,000th home run in baseball history. Baseball-reference has a fascinating list of the various increments over the years. It's interesting to see all the various players who hit each milestone.

I did not know that the first home run in history was given up by a Reds pitcher (Cherokee Fisher) on May 2, 1876 and the 100th was given up by Reds Hall of Famer Will White (Reds HOF) three years later.

Now there are about 10,000 Home Runs about every two years (since about 1995).

Here's the list

http://www.baseball-reference.com/250_000.shtml