Babe Ruth's 60th Home Run.

Babe Ruth's 60th Home Run. BAMBINO'S HIT BEATS SOLONS Veteran Zachary Victim of Record-Breaking Poke Circuit Hit Scores Koenig and Gives Yanks Win Babe Has One More Game in Which to Boost Mark The Associated Press September 30, 1927 . In 1918 baseball legend Babe Ruth, who became known as the Bambino, led the American League in home runs, hitting 11 that year. Over the next few years, as he changed the way the game was played, Ruth steadily increased his home run totals. In 1927, playing for the New York Yankees, he set a long-standing single-season record of 60 home runs when he blasted a homer into the right-field stands of Yankee Stadium, bettering his own record of 59 set in 1921. Compared with the media attention that greeted Roger Maris's 61 home run season in 1961 and Mark McGwire's 70 home runs in 1998, Ruth's record garnered only this four-paragraph Associated Press story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. New York. Sept. 30. (AP)--Babe Ruth's sixtieth homer of the season, creating a new major league record, carried the New York Yankees to a 4-to-2 win over the Washington Senators today. With the score tied at 2-2 in the eighth, Koenig tripled with one out and came home as Ruth shattered his old mark of fifty-nine homers with a bull mashie shot into the sun seats of the right-field stand. Ruth also hit two singles and scored three of New York's runs. Tuning his pitchers for the world series, Manager Miller Huggins worked Pipgras and Pennock in relay today and the pair held Washington to five hits. The Senators took an early lead in the fourth inning, scoring two runs on three hits. Goslin singled and after two were out, a single and steal by Ruel and Bluege's one-baser counted the tallies. The Yankees got to Tom Zachary for single runs in the fourth and sixth innings to set the stage for Ruth's record-smashing climax.... Source: The Associated Press, September 30, 1927. Microsoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.