Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-02-27 | Page 16 | Babe Compiles Enviable Mark in Junior Loop

Babe Compiles 1 Enviable Mark MarkIn In Junior Loop NEW YORK Feb 27 21 Heres Here's F Here's Heres Heresa a thumbnail sketch of Babe Ruth Ruthby b by jy years e 1914 At 1914 At the age of 20 he made his prof professional s onal debut with Baltimore BalU Balti- more Oriol Orioles s in International league as pitcher and outfielder During the year he was purchased by Boston Red Sox for 2900 and farmed to Providence club 1915 1915 Rejoined Rejoined Red Sox and made his tiis world series debut as IS pinch hitter hitler grounding out on a pit pitched edl ball by Grover Cleveland I Alexan-I der I 1916 1916 Pitched Pitched lull full world series series' winning 2 to 1 in 14 innings and holding Dodgers scoreless s In m last 13 1917 Still 1917 Still a pitcher but h his batting batting batting bat bat- ting prowess began to take shape as ashe ashe he hit In iq 52 games I 1918 Won 1918 Won two series' series games against Chicago Cubs and ran his string of or consecutive scoreless innings innings in in- to 29 for lor a series series' record 1919 1919 ted Started his home run splurge hitting 29 circuit drives for lor Boston i Red Sox Sax and was sold old to New York York Yankees for lor 1920 Received 1920 Received salary of as combination first outfield baseman er and belted 54 homers and batted in games 1921 1921 Rapped Rapped out 59 home runs for fora a new record boosted his average to and hit in series against New York Giants 1922 Tumbled 1922 Tumbled from home hom run xun heights falling off to 35 and losing leadership to Rogers Hornsby who hit 42 1923 It 1923 It wa was known as the year ear of the return of ot Ruth He netted 41 homers during the season and then in m the series with the Giants hit hi t three homers a triple triple- a double and two singles and became the first player to hit two homers In successive successive sive times at bat and three homers in one world series eries 1924 Yankees 1924 Yankees tumbled to seventh place but Ruth hit 46 homers and led American league hitters with 1925 Had 1925 Had the famous stomach stomachache stomachache stomachache ache heard around the world anc and was fined and suspended indefinitely in indefinitely in d definitely finitely by Manager Miller l Hug Hug- lins for misconduct off ocr the playing g field 1926 Hit 1928 Hit three home runs in fourth game of world series with St St. Louis LIuis Cardinals breaking record 1927 Signed 1927 Signed year three contract with Yankees for a year and boosted home run record to 60 1923 Repeated 1928 Repeated three home runs run in one series game in play off against St. St Louis Cardinals 1929 Cracked 1929 Cracked out five hundredth major league home run on August Augus 11 in game against Cleveland 1930 Signed 1930 Signed two two- year two ear contract a at a year year highest highest salary ever eve paid a ball player 1931 1931 Collected Collected hits In times s at bat for average of 1932 Signed 1932 Signed year one contract contrat t fo for and celebrated opening o of season with pair of homers against A Athletics thle tics 1933 Injuries 1933 Injuries plagued him and his decline as a 3 pla player er began He received re and batted 1934 Paid 1934 Paid played games hit 22 homers and batted In last year ear as Yankee regular Collected his seven hundredth homer 1 and two thousandth base on balls