On October 6, 1926, Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hit a record
three homers against the St. Louis Cardinals in the fourth
game of the World Series.
The Yanks won the game 10-5, despite Ruth’s unprecedented performance, they lost the championship in the seventh game.
In 1928, in the fourth game of another Yanks-Cards World
Series, Ruth tied his own record, knocking three more pitches
out of the same park.
On August 22, 1989, Nolan Ryan of the Texas Rangers became
the first pitcher in major league history to registered 5,000 career strikeouts. Ryan would go on to rack up a total of 5,714 strikeouts,
over 1,500 more than his closest competition.
Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr. ("the Ryan Express") is78 years old.
On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hit his 715th
career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714
homers. A crowd of 53,775 people, the largest in the history of
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, was with Aaron that night to
cheer when he hit a 4th inning pitch off the Los Angeles Dodgers’
Al Downing.
However, as Aaron was an African American who had received
death threats and racist hate mail during his pursuit of one of
baseball’s most distinguished records, the achievement was
bittersweet.
Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021), nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin’ Hank."
MIKE GRACIA
Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)
MacArthur died in Walter Reed Army Medical Center after
surgery on 5 April 1964, of primary biliary cholangitis at
age 84.
On October 6, 1926, Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hit a record three
homers against the St. Louis Cardinals in the fourth game of the
World Series. The Yanks won the game 10-5, but despite Ruth’s unprecedented performance, they lost the championship in the
seventh game.
In 1928, in the fourth game of another Yanks-Cards World
Series, Ruth tied his own record, knocking three more
pitches out of the same park.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
(February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948)
