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Babe Ruth 1st career grand slam HR...
Babe Ruth 1st career grand slam HR...
Item # 712520
May 21, 1919
THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, Boston, May 21, 1919
* Babe Ruth pitches to a victory
* Very 1st career grand slam HR
* Boston Red Sox - MLB baseball
* In a Boston publication (very rare)
Page 12 has a brief and somewhat discrete report with headings: "Only Two Games In The American" "Red Sox Defeat St. Louis" Text includes: "Ruth kept the Browns' hits pretty well scattered" Also Ruth's name mentioned after "Batteries" (see images) Report also mentions the Red Sox scoring 6 runs in the second inning. History shows Babe Ruth hit his very first career grand slam home run in this inning though not mentioned in the report here.
Complete with 18 pages, light toning at the margins, minor spine wear, generally nice.
Category: The 20th Century