Ask people to visualize Babe Ruth and some standard images of the Sultan of Swat might come to mind and look something like…
Have you ever seen Babe Ruth doing any of the following things?
The Babe practicing his bunting –
Babe Ruth practicing his right-handed hitting–
The Bambino sliding into home plate-
The Babe about to field a fly ball in the outfield-
Babe Ruth Pitching for the Yankees 1933 –
Babe Ruth smokes in the dugout-
The New York Yankees Actually Hold The MLB Record For The Largest Attendance In A Regular Season Game.
Records are made to be broken…that is if anyone knows about them.
If you look up the largest attendance during the regular season to see a major league baseball game, the Sporting News Baseball Record Book and many online sources claim that the paid attendance on September 12, 1954 of 84,587 at Cleveland’s Municipal Stadium is the largest ever. The Yankees were visiting the Indians that day for a doubleheader and were battling for a pennant that Cleveland would eventually go on to win. The Yankees finished in second place with 103 wins (no wild card in 1954)!
But is the 1954 Indians-Yankees game the regular season record?
Probably no one, with the possible exception of the members of SABR (the Society for American Baseball Research) really cares, but the official record books are wrong.
On September 9, 1928 The New York Yankees and Philadelphia Athletics were in a tight battle for first place, a half game separating Continue reading