Lee Howard "Big Lee" Weyer (September 3, 1936 – July 4, 1988) was an American umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League from 1961 until his death.
 In a 1987 "Sports Illustrated" poll of National League catchers, Weyer was rated the best at calling balls and strikes.
 He was the home plate umpire on September 11, 1985 in Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium when Pete Rose collected his 4,192nd hit to break Ty Cobb's career record, and was the third base umpire in the April 8, 1974 game in which Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth's record of 714 career home runs.
This page details statistics, records, and other achievements pertaining to Babe Ruth.
 At the time in which Babe Ruth played, some of baseball's modern awards did not exist.
 The Division Series and Championship Series did not exist.
 The MLB All-Star Game did not exist until 1933, late in Ruth's career.
 At the time of his retirement, Ruth held many of baseball's most esteemed records, including the career records for home runs (714 — since broken), slugging percentage (0.690), runs batted in (2,213 — since broken), bases on balls (2,062 — since broken) and on-base plus slugging (1.164).
 At the time of his retirement, Ruth held many more records than are listed here.
The "M&M Boys" were the duo of New York Yankees baseball players Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, who were teammates from 1960 to 1966.
 They gained prominence during the 1961 season, when Maris and Mantle, batting third and cleanup (fourth) in the Yankee lineup respectively, both challenged Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season record of 60 home runs.
 The home run lead would change hands between the two teammates numerous times throughout the summer and fueled intense scrutiny of the players by the press.
 Maris eventually broke the record when he hit his 61st home run on the final day of the season, while Mantle hit 54 before he was forced to pull out of the lineup in September because of an abscessed hip.
The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg is a 1998 documentary film directed, produced and written by Aviva Kempner about Hall of Fame first baseman Hank Greenberg of the Detroit Tigers.
 A Jewish player who chose not to play on Yom Kippur in 1934 during a heated pennant race, Greenberg experienced a great deal of antisemitism.
 He nearly broke Babe Ruth's 60 home run record by hitting 58 home runs in 1938.
The 1921 Major League Baseball season, ended when the New York Giants beat the New York Yankees in Game 8 of the World Series.
 1921 was the first of three straight seasons in which the Yankees would lead the majors in wins.
 Babe Ruth broke the single season home run record for the third consecutive season by hitting 59 home runs in 152 games.
 Ruth also broke Roger Connor's record for the most home runs all time when he hit his 139th home run on July 18 against Bert Cole.
 The record for career strikeouts, previously held by Cy Young was also broken in 1921 by Walter Johnson; Johnson lead the league in strikeouts with 143 and ended the season with 2,835 strikeouts.
 Young struck out 2,803 during his career.
 The Cincinnati Reds set a Major League record for the fewest strikeouts in a season, with only 308.
 Future hall of famers Kiki Cuyler and Goose Goslin both debuted in September 1921.
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.
 During the at-bat, Ruth made a pointing gesture, which existing film confirms, but the exact meaning of his gesture remains ambiguous.
 Although neither fully confirmed nor refuted, the story goes that Ruth pointed to the center-field bleachers during the at-bat.
 It was allegedly a declaration that he would hit a home run to this part of the park.
 On the next pitch, Ruth hit a home run to center field.
 The home run was his fifteenth, and last, in his 41 post-season games.
 It was said to be one of the greatest home runs in history.
The 1961 Major League Baseball season saw the New York Yankees defeat the Cincinnati Reds in five games in the World Series.
 The season is best known for Yankee teammates Roger Maris’ and Mickey Mantle's pursuit of Babe Ruth's prestigious 34-year-old single-season home run record of 60.
 Maris ultimately broke the record when he hit his 61st home run on the final day of the regular season, while Mantle was forced out of the lineup in late-September due to a hip infection and finished with 54 home runs.
The Oakland Athletics' 1987 season involved the A's finishing 3rd in the American League West with a record of 81 wins and 81 losses.
 Mark McGwire set a rookie record by hitting 49 home runs.
 At the beginning of the season, the word "Athletics" returned, in script lettering, to the front of the team's jerseys.
 Former A's owner, Charles O. Finley banned the word "Athletics" from the club's name in the past because he felt that name was too closely associated with former Philadelphia Athletics owner Connie Mack.
 In his first full Major League season, Mark McGwire hit 49 home runs, a single-season record for a rookie; he was named the American League Rookie of the Year.
 McGwire would be the first American League rookie since Al Rosen of the Cleveland Indians in 1950 to lead the American League in home runs.
 The 1987 season also saw the return of Reggie Jackson to Oakland.
In Major League Baseball (MLB), the 50 home run club is the group of batters who have hit 50 or more home runs in a single season.
 Babe Ruth was the first to achieve this, doing so in 1920.
 By reaching the milestone, he also became the first player to hit 30 and then 40 home runs in a single-season, breaking his own record of 29 from the 1919 season.
 Ruth subsequently became the first player to reach the 50 home run club on four occasions, repeating the achievement in 1921, 1927 and 1928.
 He remained the only player to accomplish this until Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa matched his feat in 1999 and 2001, respectively, thus becoming the only players to achieve four consecutive 50 home run seasons.
 Barry Bonds hit the most home runs to join the club, collecting 73 in 2001.
 The most recent player to reach the milestone is Aaron Judge, achieving the feat during the 2017 season.
Roger Eugene Maris (September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985) was an American professional baseball player who played four seasons in the minor leagues and twelve seasons in the major leagues.
 Maris played right field on four Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, from 1957 through 1968.

Question: What was the middle name of the player who broke Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season record for home runs?
Answer: Eugene