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Photographer: Peter Fritz
Taken: Circa 2015
Caption: Babe Ruth Field
Additional Description: Designated on July 4, 1922 as Delanco Park, an athletic field for baseball, the field was the site of the Babe Ruth exhibition game on July 1, 1924, which forever changed its name to Babe Ruth Field. Newspapers reported 5,000 people attended the game. Babe Ruth hit an over-the-fence home run in the fifth inning, the first fence-clearing homer in the history of the park.
Submitted: March 24, 2017, by Peter Fritz of Delanco, New Jersey.
Database Locator Identification Number: p378190
File Size: 1.069 Megabytes

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