March 7, 2014by adminNEJNo Comments

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Ruth hit an amazing 624-foot home run from old Waterfront Park Stadium to the West Coast Inn at the southwest corner of 1st Street and 3rd Avenue, near today’s Hilton Hotel. This photo depicts the distance. Waterfront Park Stadium’s home plate is near the center of Al Lang parking lot. Photo is of the first Al Lang Stadium, image 1950. Courtesy of St. Petersburg Museum of History.

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