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Baseball

kairos12

(13,242 posts) Sat Apr 20, 2019, 12:38 PM Apr 2019

Babe Ruth's 1919 Home Run total of 29

accounted for a astounding 6% of the 447 homers hit by all American and National Leaguers in 1919. In 2017, no entire TEAM accounted for even 4% of the Major League home runs.

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Babe Ruth's 1919 Home Run total of 29 (Original Post) kairos12 Apr 2019 OP

And that is why God invented steroids world wide wally Apr 2019 #1

Hit bunch of those HR's over Fenway's long distance right field wall. empedocles Apr 2019 #2

The following season he hit 54 HRs, 8.6% of the major league total. John Fante Apr 2019 #3

world wide wally

(21,827 posts)

1. And that is why God invented steroids

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Sat Apr 20, 2019, 12:52 PM

Apr 2019

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

2. Hit bunch of those HR's over Fenway's long distance right field wall.

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Sat Apr 20, 2019, 02:49 PM

Apr 2019

John Fante

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3. The following season he hit 54 HRs, 8.6% of the major league total.

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Sat Apr 20, 2019, 03:20 PM

Apr 2019

Only two teams that year (the Yankees minus Ruth, the Phillies) surpassed Ruth's 54.

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