This day in baseball: Babe’s first professional homer
Posted: March 7, 2020 Filed under: 20th Century, This day in baseball | Tags: Babe Ruth, Baltimore Orioles, Baseball, history, International League, Major League Baseball, Minor League Baseball, MLB, sports 2 CommentsBabe Ruth hit his first home run in professional baseball on March 7, 1914 in the last inning of a spring training exhibition game for the International League’s Baltimore Orioles. The homer was a 400-foot shot at the Cape Fear Fairgrounds in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Ruth in 1914 (untoldentertainment.com)
I was hoping for an inside-the-park job.
Oh, what an irony that would’ve been