“I have just one superstition. Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.”
He sits as a titan in the mists of baseball’s storied history. A legend so big as to feel today like a figment of the imagination, yet Babe Ruth was all too real, even if his feats feel like tale tales a century later.
Flashback to 1934, Babe’s final season with the New York Yankees. On July 13 of that year, Babe stood against Tommy Bridges of the Detroit Tigers at Navin Field. He stepped up to the plate with everyone on the edge of their seats, and launched a moon shot estimated to have traveled around 500 feet – clearing the stadium and landing on Plum Steet – to become the first Big Leaguer to 700 home runs.
Only Babe.
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