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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5005351, member: 71"] As it was well before my time I can't definitively claim that this is true but allegedly until some point in the early 1920's (when home runs were viewed of greater importance), if a home run ended a game (bottom of ninth or extra innings) and a baserunner ahead of the batter scored the winning run, the game stopped there and the batter was credited with whatever hit would have brought that runner in (similar to today where what would have been a bases clearing double at any prior point in the game being a single and one RBI in the botttom of the ninth of a tie game). Supposedly Babe Ruth hit five or six of these in his first couple of seasons with the Yankees that weren't counted as home runs. [/QUOTE]