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In his career, did Babe RUth hit more [b:94dffbed15]Inside the PArk HRs[/b:94dffbed15] or [b:94dffbed15]Walk-Off HRs[/b:94dffbed15]?

Bound to be walk-off. My guess is he didn't many inside-the-park homers.

WN

yeah, but inside-the-parkers were more prevalent on some of those huge fields they played on back in the 20s.

My guess is neither (same). Zero? One?

Not positive on walk offs, but I think the Babe had 10 inside the park HR's (he was not fat when he was young!) and 11 walk-offs.

Scott

Some Babe Ruth trivia trivia...until 1931 balls that bounced in the stands were counted as home runs (not ground rule doubles).

I found this in Wiki answers.

"[b:9d1a78bb7e]The Babe Lost more HRs than gained


The number of home runs that Babe Ruth hit that bounced over the wall, and counted as a home run will never be known because it was counted as such. The stat of home runs that bounced over the wall was never kept.

It was estimated that players of that era hit about 2 home runs a year, that bounced over the wall. Counting from 1920 when Babe Ruth became a full time hitter for the Yankees until 1930. (1931 the rule was changed making a ball that bounced over the fence a ground rule double) Babe Ruth would have had about 22 (or more) ground rule doubles that were counted as home runs.

But the Babe lost more home runs than gained because there was also a rule that the baseball that cleared the wall in fair territory, also had to land in fair territory to be counted as a home run. Further, the rules once stipulated that an over-the-fence home run in a sudden-victory situation would only count for as many bases as was necessary to "force" the winning run home.

For example: In a tie game, a ball hit over the wall with a runner on first to end the game would only count as a triple. It was estimated that Babe Ruth would have hit 104 home runs in 1927 when he had 60 home runs counted, and lost between 50 -78 home runs overall, during his career because of these rules.[/b:9d1a78bb7e]"

After reading up in several different sources there seems to be some dispute over whether or not Ruth hit any "bounce in the stands" home runs.

Loops, 12 walkoffs, 10 inside park.

Doug, ive heard about that before.

The quote above from JamesGang came from the excellent book [i:69c4a5ab77][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_Babe_Ruth_Hit_104_Home_Runs]The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs[/url][/i:69c4a5ab77].

A good read.

[quote:507cdc83c3="The Biomechanical Man"]The quote above from JamesGang came from the excellent book [i:507cdc83c3][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_Babe_Ruth_Hit_104_Home_Runs]The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs[/url][/i:507cdc83c3].

A good read.[/quote:507cdc83c3]

I second that, the book is great!!

Greg

[quote:7c8c96bae7="The Biomechanical Man"]The quote above from JamesGang came from the excellent book [i:7c8c96bae7][url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Year_Babe_Ruth_Hit_104_Home_Runs]The Year Babe Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs[/url][/i:7c8c96bae7].[/quote:7c8c96bae7]Weird... that's how many Paul Konerko needs to hit this year in order to join the 500 HR club.