Babe Ruth would have been one of baseball's best pitchers of all-time, but we fans weren't able to find out...because the Babe was too busy becoming baseball's greatest hitter ever. He went on to hit 714 career home runs and what he did transcended the sport. He is just as popular now as he was in his heyday with the New York Yankees in the 1920's. Babe Ruth was in the first group elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936. In his debut on July 11, 1914, he was the starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and beat Cleveland, 4-3. On that Cleveland squad that day included Shoeless Joe Jackson and Nap Lajoie.
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Notice who Cleveland's shortstop was that day. Yet another nugget that makes this box score so interesting.
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