Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!pesnta!amd!amdcad!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!pete From: pete@umcp-cs.UUCP (Pete Cottrell) Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball Subject: Re: Babe Ruth home run trivia Message-ID: <2141@umcp-cs.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 03:29:49 EST Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.2141 Posted: Thu Nov 7 03:29:49 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Nov-85 05:24:00 EST References: <150@duts.UUCP> <1974@bmcg.UUCP> Reply-To: pete@maryland.UUCP (Pete Cottrell) Distribution: net Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD Lines: 19 >Answer this when you are thru. >How many of Ruth's home runs hit the outfield grass >and then bounced over the fence for a home run?? > >It was legal beck then. Yes, and then they invented ground rule doubles. I don't know the answer, but do remember reading that Ruth's 60 homers in 1927 were hit before the ground-rule double rule went into effect, in, I think, 1930 or 1931. As you know, Roger Maris has always had a star next to his 61, so someone thought "Hey! If some of Ruth's homers would have been doubles using the rules Maris played under, it could help legitimize Maris' record". However, a search apparently revealed that all of Ruth's homers that year were 'real'. Sorry, Roger. -- Call-Me: Pete Cottrell, Univ. of Md. Comp. Sci. Dept. UUCP: seismo!umcp-cs!pete CSNet: pete@umcp-cs ARPA: pete@mimsy.umd.edu