@nut_history Babe Ruth started Game 2 for the Boston Red Sox against the Brooklyn Robins and he pitched a complete 14-inning game, allowing just 1 run (an inside-the-park home run in the first inning by Hi Myers) before shutting out Brooklyn the rest of the way in a 2-1 Red Sox victory
@ob5839@Keith_McPherson The New York Black Yankees were a professional Negro league baseball team based in New York City; Paterson, New Jersey; and Rochester, New York & the team joined the Negro National League in 1936, and remained in the league through 1948.
@nut_history Die hard Mets fan here but absolutely! Still can hear him saying I’ll be home Cora (his wife) and around the 9th inning they would show the GW bridge and say Phil is on his way home, Cora. Classic
This Day in #WWII History: Men of the 16th Infantry Regiment, U.S. 1st Infantry Division wade ashore on Omaha Beach on the morning of June 6, 1944 (colorization by @marinamaral2).
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Babe Ruth was the guest of honor at a Harlem fundraiser for the benefit of a local African-American church. Other white celebrities had similarly committed to attend, but only Babe kept his word. He contributed some autographed balls along with twenty bucks out of his pocket