Babe Ruth’s 60 home runs accounted for 20 percent of the MLB total that year.
Ruth out homered teams ninety times, between the years of 1918 and 1933, not to mention besting pairs of teams eighteen times.
BABE RUTH HOME RUN TOTALS VS TEAMS:
TEAM COMPARISONS 1918-1933 HRs > AL > NL
1918 11 4 1
1919 29 4 6
1920 54 7 7
1921 59 5 3 (a)
1922 35 1 1
1923 41 2 (b) 1
1924 46 5 3
1925 25 0 0
1926 47 5 4
1927 60 7 5
1928 54 4 3
1929 46 2 (c) 2
1930 49 1 0
1931 46 3 3
1932 41 1 0
1933 34 0 0 (d)
(a) In addition, Ruth tied Brooklyn Dodgers in 1921
(b) In addition, Ruth tied Detroit Tigers in 1923
(c) In addition, Ruth tied St. Louis Browns in 1929
(d) In addition, Ruth tied Cincinnati Reds in 1933