FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Tim Reid: Member of Babe Ruth’s Historic Home Runs Research Team
kingofclout@gmail.com (754-
100th ANNIVERSARY OF BABE RUTH’S HISTORIC RETURN TO BALTIMORE
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, APRIL 18 and 19, 2019
“SEVEN SWINGS – SIX HOME RUNS”
AT OLD ORIOLE PARK
(Baltimore, Maryland)
April 18 and 19, marks the 100th Anniversary of Babe Ruth’s historic return to Baltimore as a pitching and hitting superstar for the World Champion Boston Red Sox. Inspired by his return, “The Southpaw from Baltimore” put on what may have been the greatest slugging performance of all time: “six home runs on seven swings” against his first professional coach and team, Jack Dunn’s Baltimore Orioles at old Oriole Park, then at the corner of 30th Street and Greenmount Avenue.
Featuring new and never-published-before evidence, analyses, and diagramming, baseball historian Bill Jenkinson (“the Babe Ruth of Babe Ruth Home Run Historians”) has exhaustively researched, and now recently authored a definitive account of Babe’s Herculean performance in his old hometown. See the just-released accompanying website, titled “Six Home Runs in Baltimore”.
Quoting Bill Jenkinson:
“We have no knowledge of any hitter ever matching Ruth’s deeds in that 1919 visit to Baltimore. It is highly improbable that we ever will. At least one of Babe’s drives exceeded 500 feet in length, possibly as many as three. When it is understood that only one such home run has been hit by the combined rosters of every Major League team so far in the 21st Century, that distance level is nearly superhuman.”
Interviews, information, illustrations, and images, (including true distances of all six home runs) available upon request:
Please contact Tim Reid of the Babe Ruth's Historic Home Runs Research Team at: kingofclout@gmail.com and/
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