This year marks 100 years since the slugger came to St. Petersburg for spring training with the Yankees in 1925.
He grew up hearing about his famed grandfather from his grandmother Claire, Ruth’s second wife, and his mother, Julia, the Babe’s adopted daughter. “Nobody could hit home runs like that ...
Paul Skenes brought a fresh twist to the never-ending debate between baseball’s past and present. The post How to Outsmart an ...
Record books in sports are constantly being rewritten, but which records are truly set in stone? Here are the 10 most ...
It’s almost baseball season, which means we are well into projection season. Until we get to see it all play out on the field ...
The New York Yankees versus Boston Red Sox rivalry is headed for a mostly dormant year, according to the new PECOTA ...
Babe Ruth. When Ruth hit 54 homers in 1920, he accounted for 8.6 percent of all the homers hit that year. It's the highest percentage ever by a seasonal home run leader, though he came close to ...
That would make it the longest home run in major league history … if it had cleared the roof. “Tape-measure” homers were a realm infused with as much mythology as fact, of course. Babe Ruth supposedly ...
311/.403 with 10 home runs in 2011. 1915 - The Yankees acquire Wally Pipp from the Tigers off of waivers. He would eventually anchor first base for New York for a decade until the arrival of Lou ...
Joe Malone of the Quebec Bulldogs scores an NHL-record seven goals in a 10-6 victory over the Toronto St. Patricks. 1941 — Joe Louis knocks out Red Burman in the fifth round at ...
The price tag surpasses the record $126,500 which bought a Babe Ruth home run ball last year. 2005: The Dodgers announce that they have signed Derek Lowe to a four-year deal worth $36 million. 2009: ...
Then came Imlach’s call on Dec. 6, 1961, the NHL team’s roster depleted by injuries. Faulkner and goalie Don Simmons were called up to Montreal for Toronto’s Dec. 7 game at the Forum, a hockey shrine ...