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Kingturtle
There's a list in the back of the McMillan Baseball Encyclopedia of all the home runs that were lost because of this rule. Babe Ruth was one of the guys.
obscure rule in the history of baseball
June 07, 2013 at 01:16PM View BBCode
Prior to about 1920 (I forget exactly what year the rule changed), the home run in [url=http://simdynasty.com/boxscore.jsp?boxscoreid=25233461&cityid=3]this game[/url] would be officially recorded as a single, the batter being awarded only enough bases to get the winning run across the plate.There's a list in the back of the McMillan Baseball Encyclopedia of all the home runs that were lost because of this rule. Babe Ruth was one of the guys.
redcped
June 07, 2013 at 03:36PM View BBCode
Didn't they go back and retroactively award home runs on those?
Kingturtle
Here's the list by the way: http://www.retrosheet.org/ending.htm
June 07, 2013 at 04:28PM View BBCode
nope.Here's the list by the way: http://www.retrosheet.org/ending.htm
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