Always, in the abortive attacks upon Ruth's record, one man alone -- a Jimmy Foxx ( 58 in 1932 ) or a Hank Greenberg ( 58 in 1938 ) or a Hack Wilson ( 56 in 1930 ) -- made the bid.

A prodigious home run hitter, Greenberg narrowly missed breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1938, when he was again voted to the All-Star Team and hit 58 home runs, leading the league for the second time.

After having been passed over for the All-Star team in 1935 and being left on the bench for the 1937 game, Greenberg refused to participate in the 1938 contest.

" Nonetheless, Howard Megdal has calculated that in September 1938, Greenberg was walked in over 20 % of his plate appearances, the highest percentage in his career by far.

When Malden performed in the Goodman's children's theater, he wooed the actress Mona Greenberg ( stage name: Mona Graham ), who married him in 1938.

On December 18, 1938, Malden married Mona Greenberg, who survives him.

: 4 Hank Greenberg ( 1935, 1938, 1940, 1946 )

In the USA, this led to the adoption of the Delaney clause, an amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, stating that no carcinogenic substances may be used as food additives.

His first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest ( 1936 ), and this led to a period of typecasting as a gangster with films such as Angels with Dirty Faces ( 1938 ) and B-movies like The Return of Doctor X ( 1939 ).

Underlying the basis of the “ containment ” of Germany was the so-called “ X documents ” provided by Carl Friedrich Goerdeler over the course of the winter of 1938 – 39 which suggested that the German economy, under the strain of massive military spending was on the verge of collapse, and which led British policy-makers to the conclusion that if Hitler could be deterred from war and if his regime was “ contained ” long enough, then the German economy would collapse, and with it, presumably the Nazi regime.

Olympia was very successful in Germany after it premiered for Hitler ’ s 49th birthday in 1938, and its international debut led Riefenstahl to embark on an American publicity tour in an attempt to secure commercial release.

In 1961, Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Washington Manley proposed the replacement of Empire Day with Labour Day, a celebration in commemoration of May 23, 1938, when Alexander Bustamante led a labour rebellion leading to Jamaican independence.

In 1938, the fascist regime led by Benito Mussolini introduced a series of laws instituting an official segregationist policy in the Italian Empire, especially aimed against the Jews.

Williams led the league with 135 runs scored and 37 home runs, and he finished third with 335 total bases, the most home runs, runs scored, and total bases by a Red Sox player since Jimmie Foxx's in 1938 .< ref ><< http :// www. baseball-reference. com / teams / BOS / leaders_bat_50. shtml >></ ref > Williams placed second in MVP voting, with Joe DiMaggio winning with 291 votes to 254 votes on the strength of his record-breaking 56-game hitting streak and large number of RBIs.

Herbert E. Balch continued the work from 1904 to 1914, where he led excavations of the entrance passage ( 1904 – 15 ), Witch's Kitchen ( Chamber 1 ) and Hell's Ladder ( 1926 – 1927 ) and the Badger Hole ( 1938 – 1954 ), where Roman coins from the 3rd century were discovered along with Aurignacian flint implements.

In 1938, the region was invaded by Japanese forces, and Aylward led over 100 orphans to safety over the mountains, despite being wounded herself.

The OKW was formed on 4 February 1938 following the Blomberg-Fritsch Affair, which led to the dismissal of Generalfeldmarschall ( and Reich War Minister ) Werner von Blomberg and the dissolution of the Reichskriegsministerium ( Reich War Ministry ).

The defeat of the Republican armies in the Battle of the Ebro led in 1938 and 1939 to the occupation of Catalonia by Franco's forces, who abolished Catalan autonomy and brought in a dictatorial regime, which took strong measures against Catalan nationalism and Catalan culture.

This led to further evolution of the sauna, including the electric sauna stove, which was introduced in 1938 by Metos Ltd in Vaasa and far infrared saunas, which have become popular in the last several decades.

In 1938 – 39, he led South Australia to the Sheffield Shield and made a century in six consecutive innings to equal CB Fry's world record.

In 1938, they first received national exposure by performing on the Kate Smith Hour radio show, which led to their appearance in a Broadway musical, The Streets of Paris.

Successful yields led to the first Amalgamated-designed and built factory, which began operation on October 9, 1938.

But " rebellion against chapel religion ", along with the " inspirational influence of English " poets, led him to write in English ( Gwalia Deserta ( 1938 ); The Angry Summer ( 1943 )).

The 1938 shooting of a German diplomat by a young Polish Jew, Herschel Grynszpan, led directly to the worst anti-Jewish pogrom of the pre-war years, culminating in the events of Kristallnacht on 9 November when thousands of Jewish homes, shops and premises in Germany and Austria were ransacked and burned.

Shortly after the anschluss of Austria to Germany, Henlein met with Hitler in Berlin on 28 March 1938, where he was instructed to raise demands unacceptable to the Czechoslovak government led by president Edvard Beneš.

In 1938, when the Imperial Japanese Army captured Kaifeng, the government led by Chiang Kai-shek bombed the Huayuankou dam in Zhengzhou in order to prevent the Japanese forces from advancing further.

Grove won his eighth ERA title a year later, and also led the league in ERA and winning percentage in 1938.

Fritz Reiner ( 1938 – 48 ) led the orchestra as Music Director for a decade, imposing his precise technical demands while also triggering substantial turnover in personnel exacerbated by the World War II military draft.

The group notion started in 1976, when the four brothers of the Neville family, Art ( born 1937 ), Charles ( b. 1938 ), Aaron ( b. 1941 ), and Cyril ( b. 1948 ) got together to take part in the recording session of The Wild Tchoupitoulas, a Mardi Gras Indian group led by their uncle Big Chief Jolly.

From 1931 through 1938 he led a band in Jackson.

Enrico Fermi, came from Italy in 1938 and led the work that produced the world's first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

The BBWAA began by polling three writers in each league city in 1938, reducing that number to two per league city in 1961.

That season, Feller set a record with 17 strikeouts in a single game and went on to lead the league in strikeouts from 1938 – 1941.

Near the end of the first decade of the double-Bills ' guidance, the Cubs won the NL pennant in 1929 and then achieved the unusual feat of winning a pennant every three years, following up the 1929 flag with league titles in 1932, 1935, and 1938.

They were granted an amnesty and freed in 1938, by which time the league had lost most of its popular support.

When, in 1938, the Scranton Miners of Scranton, Pennsylvania team moved to Hartford, Connecticut and renamed the Hartford Bees, the league was renamed as the Eastern League.

The Richmond Flying Squirrels are the oldest franchise playing in the Eastern League and are also the only original member still playing in the league since the league's first season in 1923 and also in the league's first season as the Eastern League in 1938.

The side went on tour to raise funds for the Basque cause and played in Europe and Mexico, even entering the Mexican league during the 1938 – 39 season.

* Herm Starrette ( born 1938 ), Major league baseball pitcher and coach

* 1938 New Zealand rugby league season

Almost seven decades later, Hershey remains the only one of these eight original I-AHL / AHL cities to have been represented in the league without interruption since the 1938 – 39 season.

Tacoma adopted the Rainiers name in part as a tribute to the Seattle Rainiers minor league teams that played in Seattle from 1938 to 1964 in the PCL, and again from 1972 to 1976.

The league allowed the Maroons to suspend operations for the 1938 – 39 season.

The first " Pro All-Star Game ," featuring the all-stars of the 1938 season ( as well as three players from the Hollywood Stars and Los Angeles Bulldogs, who were not members of the league ), was played on January 15, 1939 at Los Angeles's Wrigley Field.

* Hollywood Stars, an American minor league baseball team that operated from 1926 – 1935 and 1938 – 1957

Signed to a professional contract by the St. Louis Cardinals as a pitcher in 1938, Musial was converted into an outfielder prior to his major league debut in 1941.

Bell left the Crawfords in 1938 to return to Mexico, coming back to baseball in the United States in 1942 to play for the Homestead Grays, who won Negro league titles in 1942, 1943, and 1944 with his help.

** American Football League ( 1938 )-minor professional American football league that changed its name to the American Professional Football Association in 1939

* " Dasher " Troy ( 1856 – 1938 ), American major league baseball player

Boudreau made his major league debut on September 9, 1938 for the Cleveland Indians, at the age of 21, playing first base in a single game.