George Herman Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948)

On this day at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, baseball
great Babe Ruth hit his 714th home run — a record for career
home runs that would stand for almost 40 years.

History.com noted "This was one of Ruth’s last games, and the
last home run of his career.”

"Ruth went four for four on the day, hitting three home runs and
driving in six runs."

Babe Ruth 714th Home Run Ball.

Babe Ruth of the Boston Braves hit this
baseball out of Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field
for his third home run of the day, and
the 714th and final round-tripper of his
major league career. The Pirates defeated
the Braves 11-7.

Kahan, a Holocaust survivor, took to the field in honor of the Florida Holocaust Museum. Kahan lost family in the
Holocaust, and survived concentration camps.

A crowd of more than 25,000 cheered on 100-year-old Holocaust
survivor Helen Kahan as she threw the first pitch of the game
between the Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees.

"It was really wonderful and exciting," Kahan told Fox News
Digital of the May 5 first-in-series baseball game held at
Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Florida.

"I loved seeing so many people cheering for us, ‘Go Tampa Bay.
Win, win, win!,’" the centenarian added. "Thank you for honoring
me. Thank you for honoring the Florida Holocaust Museum. I
waited 100 years to do this." (FOX NEWS)

Kahan was joined by her family as she threw the first pitch
at the New York Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays game in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Friday.

Cy Young, pitching for the recently established Boston
Americans, threw the first perfect game of the World
Series era on this day in history, May 5, 1904.

Young mowed down 27 straight batters in front of 10,267
fans at the former Huntington Avenue Grounds in Boston
as the Americans — later renamed the Red Sox — beat the
Philadelphia Athletics 3-0.

Perfect games are one of the rarest feats in all of sports
— with an average of less than 1 per 10,000 games.

Denton True "Cy" Young (March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955)

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Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021)

On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron knocked out the first home run
of his Major League Baseball career. Twenty years later, Aaron
becomes baseball’s new home run king when he broke Babe
Ruth’s long-standing record of 714 career homers.

A native of Mobile, Alabama, Aaron  began his professional
baseball career in 1952 in the Negro League and joined the
Milwaukee Braves of the major leagues in 1954, eight years
after Jackie Robinson had integrated baseball. Aaron,
nicknamed "Hammer", was the last Negro League player
to compete in the majors.

On April 22, 1876, the Boston Red Caps beat the Philadelphia
Athletics, 6-5, in the first official National League baseball game. 

The game, which lasted a little more than two hours, was played
in "favorable" weather before 3,000 fans. "Great interest was
manifested in the result," the Philadelphia Inquirer reported,
"as it really was the first game of importance played this season."

"The Athletics should have won the game," the newspaper added,
"but their fielding was poor." Betting on the game was "about
even.”