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Baseball Time Machine: Babe Ruth’s 60th home run (opens the original)
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It was September 30—the final Friday afternoon of the 1927 Yankees’ season. The game was tied, 2–2, in the bottom of the 8th inning before Babe Ruth pulled a fastball from Washington’s Tom Zachary into the right-field bleachers. It was his 60th home run of the 1927 season, one more than the record of 59 he had set in 1921.For much of that summer, the Yankee who looked most likely to break Ruth’s record was Lou Gehrig.There have been more than 1200 articles posted since this Substack started in M
Baseball Time Machine: Roberto Clemente’s 3000th hit (opens the original)
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On a misty, overcast Saturday afternoon in Pittsburgh, only 13,117 fans were scattered around Three Rivers Stadium. It was a college football Saturday, the Pirates had already clinched the National League East and the game against the Mets meant nothing in the standings. Richie Hebner remembered the small crowd. Hebner said, “Pittsburgh was such a football town, even with the good teams we had.”Those who stayed away missed history. Leading off the bottom of the 4th inning, Roberto Clemente lined
Baseball Time Machine: Willie Mays’s catch (opens the original)
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On a warm Wednesday afternoon, September 29, 1954, a crowd of 52,751 packed the Polo Grounds for the opener of the World Series between the New York Giants and the heavily favored Indians, who had won 111 games during the regular season. Before the day was over, 23-year-old Willie Mays had made the most famous catch in baseball history, followed it with a 10th-inning play that he considered just as good and then watched pinch hitter Dusty Rhodes end the game with a 3-run homer that barely reache
Baseball Time Machine: Ted Williams homers in his final AB (opens the original)
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On September 28, 1960, Ted Williams came to bat at Fenway Park for the last time in his major league career. With 10,454 fans standing on a gray Wednesday afternoon, the 42-year-old Red Sox legend hit a 1-1 fastball from Baltimore’s Jack Fisher into the Red Sox bullpen. It was his 521st home run.Williams wasn’t supposed to be playing in 1960. In 1959 he had the worst season of his career, hitting .254/.372/.419, .791 OPS, 10 HR, 43 RBI in 103 games while playing hurt. Williams was still a slight
Baseball Time Machine: Ted Williams hits .406 (opens the original)
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On the morning of September 28, 1941, Ted Williams was officially a .400 hitter. His average was .39955, which rounded up to .400 in the record book, and his manager had told him he could sit down and keep it. Instead, the 23-year-old Red Sox left fielder played both ends of a season-ending doubleheader at Philadelphia’s Shibe Park, went 6-for-8 and finished at .406.Williams had been above .400 for most of the summer, but September was a grind. He was hitting .413 on September 10. A 1-for-3 game
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