Today, July13, in 1934 Babe Ruth became the first player to hit 700 home runs.

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He was also the first to hit 500 on August 11, 1929, and 600 on August 21, 1931.

He was the original Wins Above Replacement player.

[underpants]

1. He hit 700 home runs in one day????

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4. Not a baseball numbers person, huh?

[underpants]

6. 😁

[sandensea]

3. And no steroids

Amazing.

[rurallib]

5. had to look - Babe was still with the Yankees in '34

he hit 22 homers that year and batted .288. Yanks dumped him at the end of the year.
His career ended the next year with the Boston Braves at age 40, where he hit his final 6 HRs.

There will always be only one Babe, but as always eventually time beats us all.

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7. .288 and 22 homers still not a bad year for most players. But he set quite a high standard...

the Yanks dumped him. Wouldn't even give him a chance to manage.

[rurallib]

8. I seem to recall that someone in the Yankee brass of that day said of the Babe

"He can't even manage himself. How could he ever manage a team?"

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9. They recycled managers all the time, even now. Guess the Yanks thought they were too good...

to even give him one chance.