"Foul Home Runs" From 100 Years Ago

Babe Ruth, the big, husky left-hander of the Boston Red Sox ... is the heaviest hitter the game has known. ...

The fans in every park in the league except two take pride in pointing out to a stranger the direction of some hefty wallop of the young giant from Boston. In Cleveland they point to a shattered window in the top story of a building across the street from the park that a ball from Ruth's bat broke after clearing a fence 45 feet high! They show you the very spot far out in the bleachers in Detroit where the ball landed, and you wonder if you are being told the truth.

In St. Louis Ruth did not bother about driving the ball into the right field bleachers, but just banged it clear over…