Babe Ruth throws his Babe Ruth candy bars to the fans sitting in the outfield in Yankee Stadium before a game in 1922.

Babe Ruth throws his Babe Ruth candy bars to the fans sitting in the outfield in Yankee Stadium before a game in 1922.

ByTom

Babe Ruth throws his Babe Ruth candy bars to the fans sitting in the outfield in Yankee Stadium before a game in 1922. @ET-DC@eyJkeW5hbWljIjp0cnVlLCJjb250ZW50IjoicG9zdF90YWdzIiwic2V0dGluZ3MiOnsiYmVmb3JlIjoiIiwiYWZ0ZXIiOiIiLCJsaW5rX3RvX3Rlcm1fcGFnZSI6Im9uIiwic2VwYXJhdG9yIjoiIHwgIiwiY2F0ZWdvcnlfdHlwZSI6InBvc3RfdGFnIn19@ [jetpack_subscription_form title=”Join the Community” subscribe_text=”We bring you cool stories about the game, players, ballparks and the people that shaped the game!”  subscribe_button=”Join us!” show_subscribers_total=”1″]     Subscribe to our Podcast The…

Socks Seybold, the holder of the American League season home run record before Babe Ruth, dies at 51 years of age when his car plunges over an embankment.

ByThis Day in Baseball

1921 – Socks Seybold, the holder of the American League season home run record before Babe Ruth, dies at 51 years of age when his car plunges over an embankment.

Harry Heilmann beats Ruth for the batting title then sells him a $50,000 life insurance policy

Harry Heilmann beats Ruth for the batting title then sells him a $50,000 life insurance policy

ByThis Day in Baseball

October 21, 1921, Soon after Babe Ruth receives his World Series winner’s share of $6,160.46, insurance agent Harry Heilmann, who beat Ruth for the batting title by 10 points, sells him a $50,000 life insurance policy. Beneficiaries are Mrs. Ruth and adopted daughter Dorothy.

In defiance of a Kenesaw Mountain Landis ban on World Series participants playing post-season exhibitions, Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel and Bill Piercy launch a barnstorming tour in Buffalo

In defiance of a Kenesaw Mountain Landis ban on World Series participants playing post-season exhibitions, Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel and Bill Piercy launch a barnstorming tour in Buffalo

ByBaseball

1921 – In defiance of a Kenesaw Mountain Landis ban on World Series participants playing post-season exhibitions, Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel and Bill Piercy launch a barnstorming tour in Buffalo. Five days later, they cut it short in Scranton. In the meantime Ruth openly challenges Judge Landis to act. The judge does, fining the players their World Series shares ($3,362.26), and suspending them until May 20th of the following season. Judge Landis also outlaws gentleman’s agreements and cover-ups of players optioned to the minors without proper paperwork. He declares six players free agents, including Heinie Manush, who will ride a 17-year career .330 batting average into the Hall of Fame in 1964.

New York Giants win the first “Subway Series.” The Giants defeat the New York Yankees
|

New York Giants win the first “Subway Series.” The Giants defeat the New York Yankees

ByThis Day in Baseball

Sponsor this Page   On October 13, 1921, at the Polo Grounds (home for both NY teams) the New York Giants win the first “Subway Series.” The Giants defeat the New York Yankees, 1-0, to take the World Series, five games to three. The only run of the game scores on a first inning error…

babe ruth 700th homerun

The first “Subway Series” gets underway between the New York Giants and New York Yankees

ByThis Day in Baseball

test On October 5, 1921, New York is host to the first one-city World Series since 1906 and the Polo Grounds is the site for all nine games. Carl Mays of the Yankees needs 86 pitches to set the Giants down on five hits, four of them by Frankie Frisch, as Babe Ruth drives in…

After clinching the pennant with a 5-3 win over Philadelphia in the opener behind Carl Mays’ 17th straight win over Philadelphia‚ the Yankees bring Babe Ruth into pitch in relief in the night cap. Ruth‚ with just one other pitching appearance all season‚ takes over in the 8th with New York in the lead 6-0. Ruth quickly allows the A’s 6 runs to tie the score‚ but then knuckles down to hold them scoreless to the 11th when New York scores a run to win‚ 7-6. Ruth drives in his 167th run in the game‚ besting Sam Thompson’s mark set in 1884. For Mays‚ it is his 7th straight win over Philley this season.

ByThis Day in Baseball

After clinching the pennant with a 5-3 win over Philadelphia in the opener behind Carl Mays’ 17th straight win over Philadelphia‚ the Yankees bring Babe Ruth into pitch in relief in the night cap. Ruth‚ with just one other pitching appearance all season‚ takes over in the 8th with New York in the lead 6-0. Ruth quickly allows the A’s 6 runs to tie the score‚ but then knuckles down to hold them scoreless to the 11th when New York scores a run to win‚ 7-6. Ruth drives in his 167th run in the game‚ besting Sam Thompson’s mark set in 1884. For Mays‚ it is his 7th straight win over Philley this season.

 Babe Ruth hits home runs number 57 and 58 plus a double and a walk to beat the Indians, 8 – 7, and the Yankees take a two-game lead. George Burns adds a triple and three singles for New York in the come-from-behind win. The Indians load the bases in the 9th inning but Steve O’Neill strikes out on a Carl Mays fastball in the dirt to end it.

 Babe Ruth hits home runs number 57 and 58 plus a double and a walk to beat the Indians, 8 – 7, and the Yankees take a two-game lead. George Burns adds a triple and three singles for New York in the come-from-behind win. The Indians load the bases in the 9th inning but Steve O’Neill strikes out on a Carl Mays fastball in the dirt to end it.

ByBaseball

1921 – Babe Ruth hits home runs number 57 and 58 plus a double and a walk to beat the Indians, 8 – 7, and the Yankees take a two-game lead. George Burns adds a triple and three singles for New York in the come-from-behind win. The Indians load the bases in the 9th inning but Steve O’Neill strikes out on a Carl Mays fastball in the dirt to end it.