Formerly, bats were hand-carved to a template obtained from a fixed number of calibration points ; today, they are machine-turned to a precise metal template: these templates are kept in the bat manufacturers ' vaults ; for example, Babe Ruth's template, which became understandably popular among major-league players, is R43 in the Louisville Slugger archives.

In Babe Ruth's case, it is pragmatically justified that he believe p, but it is nevertheless epistemically unjustified: though the belief may be justified for the purpose of promoting some other goal ( a successful at bat, in Ruth's case ), it is not justified relative to the purely epistemic goal of having beliefs that are most likely to be true.

When Ruth told Barrow that he could only pitch or hit, Barrow decided that Ruth's bat was more useful than his pitching, and transitioned him from a pitcher into an outfielder.

He demanded that umpires check Ruth's bat after he clouted two straight home runs off Garland Buckeye.

In the 2006 computer animated film Everyone's Hero, the shot is instead played by protagonist Yankee Irving using Ruth's famed bat.

Ruth's 1919 contract that sent him from Boston to New York was sold at auction for $ 996, 000 at Sotheby's on June 10, 2005.

In fact, Frazee backed many productions before and after Ruth's sale, and No, No, Nanette did not see its first performance until five years after the Ruth sale and two years after Frazee sold the Red Sox.

It formerly included the Mitchell's Steakhouse and Mitchell's Fish Market brands, but sold both of these concepts along with one Cameron's Steakhouse location to Ruth's Chris in February 2008.

( Ruth, prevailing on Miss Marple's long affection for them, arranges for Miss Marple to investigate Ruth's belief that Carrie Louise is in danger of her life.

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.

The Becketts are better protected in their cellar, but Ruth's grandmother ( who had been sent to live with them as hospitals were cleared for expected casualties ) dies.

Five years earlier, in 1956, Mantle had challenged Ruth's record for most of the season, and the New York press had been protective of Ruth on that occasion also.

Dunn was indirectly responsible for Ruth's famous nickname, with Ruth's teammates referring to him as " Dunn's $ 10, 000 Babe " for the price he drew, and in addition to Grove, discovered other quality major leaguers such as Jack Bentley, Ernie Shore, George Earnshaw, Dick Porter and Tommy Thomas.

The grand jury transcripts, made public in 2008, record that on August 3, Ethel Rosenberg's sister-in-law, Ruth Greenglass, testified that in November 1944, Julius Rosenberg recruited Ethel, and urged her to recruit David Greenglass ( Ruth's husband ) into a conspiracy to engage in atomic espionage for the Soviet Union:

Ellen's ex-fiance is the prosecutor for Ruth's trial.

In doing so, Griffey Jr. breaks Babe Ruth's record for most home runs before the end of June.

This same committee also ruled that Roger Maris is the one and only single season home run record holder, overturning the 1961 decision of former commissioner Ford Frick that Maris and Ruth's home run totals should be listed side-by-side for 154 and 162 game seasons ( contrary to popular belief, Frick never mentioned using an asterisk ).

Maris hit a record 61 home runs during the 1961 season for the New York Yankees, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record of 60 home runs in 1927.

") The racks are mentioned in some of the ads Shaw placed, and Grey Gull Records became associated with them ( see for example " This Famous Rack is Everywhere ," Springfield Republican, 12 November 1923, p. 7 ) A good example of Shaw's strategy of placing the racks in a wide variety of locations can be seen in an ad for Ruth's Drug Store in Elyria, Ohio.

These cards were primarily highlights from the World Series ( in addition to basic cards of individual players, Topps sets commonly include cards for special themes — the 1974 tribute to Hank Aaron as he was about to break Babe Ruth's career home run record is one example ).

Local shops include Focal Point Gallery ( a gallery of photography ), Starving Artist Cafe and Gallery ( featuring musical talents ), Exotiqa International Arts ( featuring art objects, gift items, and jewelry from around the world ), Early Ruth's Antiques, Midtown Antiques, My Dolls And Things, and Calico Juno Designs, a handcrafted jewelry store where all the jewelry offered for sale is handmade on the premises.

Ruth's ghost immediately comes back for revenge on Elvira, and though Charles cannot at first see Ruth, he can see that Elvira is being chased and tormented, and his house is in uproar.

In marked contrast to Babe Ruth's funeral, which had been attended by thousands just three months earlier, only a few hundred people were present for Wilson's services.

Babe Ruth's holdout: Ruth forced Frazee's hand by holding out after the 1919 season, demanding $ 20, 000 per year — twice as much as he had been making during the season.

The Yankees went on to defeat Ruth's former team, the Boston Red Sox, by a score of 4 – 1, with Ruth hitting a three-run home run into the right-field stands.

Babe Ruth's first home run as a Yankee, on May 1, 1920, was characterized by the New York Times reporter as a " sockdolager " ( i. e. a decisive blow ), and was described as traveling " over the right field grand stand into Manhattan Field ".

On October 1, 1932, he threw the pitch that Babe Ruth allegedly predicted he would hit into the seats in the 1932 World Series at Wrigley Field in Chicago ( see: Babe Ruth's Called Shot ).

Babe Ruth's called shot was the home run hit by Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the 1932 World Series, held on October 1, 1932, at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

The business of baseball began to prosper along with other entertainments, and performers -- thanks partly to George Herman Ruth's spectacular efforts each season to run his salary higher and higher -- prospered too.

The opinion continues here that with a 162-game schedule, pitching spread thin through a 10-team league and a most inviting target in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field Jr., Mantle just might break the most glamorous record on the books, Babe Ruth's 60 homers of 1927.

Since 1927, fewer than a dozen men have made serious runs at Babe Ruth's record and each, in turn, has been thwarted.

What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge.

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.

To better Ruth's mark, neither needs a spectacular September flourish.

In Ruth's day -- and until this year -- the schedule was 154 games.

Baseball commissioner Ford Frick has ruled that Ruth's record will remain official unless it is broken in 154 games.

* 1974 – At Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, Hank Aaron hits his 715th career home run to surpass Babe Ruth's 39-year-old record.

Ruth's lifetime record of 714 home runs stood until 1974 when it was surpassed by Hank Aaron.

As noted in the inaugural edition of The Baseball Encyclopedia ( MacMillan, 1969 ), Ruth's career total would have been changed to 715 if historians during the 1960s had been successful in pursuing this matter.

Major League Baseball elected not to retrofit the records to the modern rules, and Ruth's total stayed at 714.

Before 1931, i. e. through most of Ruth's most productive years, the umpire called the play based on the ball's final resting place " when last seen ".

Jenkinson's book ( p. 374 – 375 ) lists 78 foul balls near the foul pole in Ruth's career, claiming that at least 50 of them were likely to have been home runs under the modern rule.

The award, created by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ) in honor of Babe Ruth, was first awarded in 1949, one year after Ruth's death.

It is usually presented to the recipient by Ruth's daughter, Julia Ruth Stevens, or her son, Tom Stevens.

* The Babe Ruth League is named in Babe Ruth's honor.

The property was restored and opened to the public in 1974, by the non-profit Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation, Inc. Ruth's widow, Claire, his two daughters, Dorothy and Julia, and his sister, Mamie, helped select and install exhibits that depict the life and times of Babe Ruth.