1933 newspaper BABE RUTH STARTS in his LAST GAME AS A PITCHER wth the NY YANKEES For Sale
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1933 newspaper BABE RUTH STARTS in his LAST GAME AS A PITCHER wth the NY YANKEES:
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1933 newspaper BABE RUTH starts in his LAST GAME AS A PITCHER (with the NY YANKEES)-inv #5Y-303
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SEE PHOTO-----COMPLETE, ORIGINALNEWSPAPER,theYork Daily Dispatch (PA) dated Oct 1, 1933.This newspaper contains coverage of BABE RUTH playing in his LAST GAME AS A PITCHER. He was with the NY Yankees and started as a pitcher in this game, his last in which he played as a pitcher.
On Oct 1, 1933 Babe Ruth started the last game of the season (his only appearance on the mound in Yankee Stadium) against the Red Sox and garnered a complete-game victory.
Ruth gave up five earned runs, so it was not a work of art, but of the 12 hits he gave up, 11 were singles. His biggest stumbling block was the sixth inning when he gave up four runs on five singles. Even so, considering he had not pitched in three years and was 38 years old, it was a remarkable effort. He even added a home run to aid his cause.
Despite his age, Ruth was a fast worker, as the game was over in 1:38. An estimated 25,000 showed up for the contest, so the chance to see the Bambino on the mound certainly put some extra people in the seats.
Ruth’s Yankee pitching career was of little consequence in the great scheme of things. But the five games he won actually enhanced his pitching career, as they added four seasons of winning pitching stats to his record with the Red Sox. In sum, he pitched in the major leagues for 10 seasons and never had a losing record. Needless to say, there are many outstanding pitchers who cannot make such a boast.
Those 10 winning seasons, among Ruth’s other pitching feats, will forever set him apart from the hitters who have hit or will hit more than 60 home runs in a season or 714 home runs in a career.
Baseball had never seen anyone like Babe Ruth before, and we really haven’t seen anybody like him since.
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