Could Babe Ruth predict his Homers? This is my all time favorite Baseball story! The New York Yankees had won 107 games leading up to the 1932 World Series. This is how I heard the story: game 3, 5th inning with Babe Ruth at Bat. The game was tied at 4 with 1 out. Babe's count was 2-2. Then he pointed his bat to center-field. Root let the next pitch go and Babe sent it sailing over the center field wall of Wrigley's Field!
Later that day a reporter ask Babe: "What if you had missed?"
Babe's reply was, "I never thought about that!"
The New York Yankees won that game 7-5 and then went on to win the World Series 13-6. Babe's "Called Homer" was the 15th home-run in that World Series for him!
Keywords: Babe Ruth, baseball, center field, Home Run, Homers, New York Yankees, pitch, World Series, Wrigley Field
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My favorite all-time story has got to be Game 6 of the 1996 World Series. It was the first World Series that the Yankees had won in my lifetime that I remember. I became a Yankee fan in the early 1980s so it was a long time time coming for me. I remember I was at Bennigans drinking some beers and eating Buffalo wings with my buddy. This was before I began my Christian walk. The Braves were ahead by a couple of runs. Jim Leyritz stepped to the plate, worked the count full, and fouled off pitch after pitch. Finally, bang, he hit one deep to left with 1 runner on base. Tie game. After that, the Yankees pulled ahead, gave it to Wetteland in the last inning. The Braves batter popped it up to Charlie Hayes. He got under it and as John Sterling said it on the radio, "Ballgame over. World Series Over. Yankees Win. Thhhhhheeeeeeeee Yankeeeeeeeeeeeessssssss winnnnnnnnn!" Wow! I was in a euphoric state. It was this 1996 team led by Joe Torre in his first year as manager for the Yankees that set that the stage for a run of winning the World Series for 3 out of the following 4 World Series: '96, '98, '99, '00. The rematch in the World Series against the Braves in '99 was like the nail in the coffin. Going in, I was certain the Braves were going to win, boy was I wrong. The domination was just unbelieveable. What I loved about those teams was how Joe Torre just kept everybody flowing in the games. There was no real superstar on the team, everybody pitched in someway somehow, whether you were a starter or came off the bench. It was the birth of a dynasty where the Yankees made it to the playoffs for 12 consecutive years. Honorable mentions: who could forget the 3 no-hitters during that 3 out of 4 years run?: 1 by Dwight Gooden in 1996 on a comeback year, 1 by David Wells in 1998 on Beanie Babies day at Yankee Stadium (a perfect game), and 1 by David Cone on Don Larsen day where Don Larsen threw the honorable first pitch to Yogi Berra in remembrance of the only perfect game in World Series history. Wow! What a dynasty!
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