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From: pete@umcp-cs.UUCP (Pete Cottrell)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Babe Ruth home run trivia
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 03:29:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 03:29:49 1985
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>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.
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