Babe's Last Hurrah
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That's amazing. I never knew about his finishing up his career with the Braves. It's a shame the Yankees treated him so bad even after
everything he did for that team. To hit 3 home runs at 40 is simply incredible. At any age it's incredible.
There were only 18 home runs hit over the right field roof at Forbes Field in the 61 years it served as the Pittsburgh Pirates home field with Babe Ruth hitting the first one, and believe it or not I witnessed two of them, both by Willie Stargell. And not only witnessed them, I was sitting in the right field upper deck cheap seats both times and watched Stargell's blasts soar over my head and over the roof. Pretty amazing when you think about it.
Forbes Field had quite unusual dimensions, 365 feet down the left field line, 457 feet to center, but just 300 feet down the right field line. I don't know if anyone ever hit a home run over the 457 mark in center as it was the deepest of its kind of any major league park. Right field was very short and there was a lower deck and then an upper deck and then the roof, so it still took a prodigious blow to make it over the roof. Stargell hit 7 of the 18 blasts that made it over the roof.
The section of the left field wall that Bill Mazeroski's winning home run in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series went over is still standing in Schenley Park, very close to where Forbes Field was originally. That was the first Series title for the Pirates since 1925 and the city went wild. Pictures show almost all White people celebrating exuberantly but peacefully downtown.
Forbes Field had quite unusual dimensions, 365 feet down the left field line, 457 feet to center, but just 300 feet down the right field line. I don't know if anyone ever hit a home run over the 457 mark in center as it was the deepest of its kind of any major league park. Right field was very short and there was a lower deck and then an upper deck and then the roof, so it still took a prodigious blow to make it over the roof. Stargell hit 7 of the 18 blasts that made it over the roof.
The section of the left field wall that Bill Mazeroski's winning home run in Game 7 of the 1960 World Series went over is still standing in Schenley Park, very close to where Forbes Field was originally. That was the first Series title for the Pirates since 1925 and the city went wild. Pictures show almost all White people celebrating exuberantly but peacefully downtown.
