Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-10
RUTH ALONE SETS
NINETEEN MARKS
Mates Establish Seven and
Team Another Seven in
Total of SO.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, october 10-Babe Ruth
and the Yankees have rewritten the
record books for the world series with
the greatest exhibition of hitting power
this ancient classic of base ball ever
has known.
Nineteen record performances for
Ruth in four games against the Cards
alone tell the amazing story of his bat
ting exploits. Seven more record-beat-
ing or equaling feats by the Yankees,
as a team, and seven additional marks,
the principal ones registered by Waite
Hoyt and Lou Gehrig, bring the 1928
grand total of record performances up
to 33.
This astonishing total is more than
double the number of record featS last
year, when IS were marked up as the
Yankees bowled over the Pirates.
Ruth has a strange hold on nearly
al the series batting records, now either
holding outright or sharing in %, run
ming the range from startling home run
feats to most StrikeoutS. He eclipSed
the big majority of his own former rec
ords and yielded ground in only one
spot to Lou Gehrig, who tied the Babes
Record of four homers for a single series.
List of Records.
The tabulation of Babe Ruth's record
performances:
l. Most series played %, breaking
own former mark.
2. Most times batted 300 or more
Five, breaking former mark shared by
Ruth with Frank Frisch.
3. Greatest batting average for one
keries-.625, breaking mark of .545 set
by Hank Gowdy in 1915.
4. Most bases on balls, total series
R9, breaking own record of %.
5. Most Strikeouts-Total series, 81,
breaking own record of 25.
s. Most runs scored, one series
9, breaking record formerly shared with
Tommy Leach. of 8.
T. Most runs scored, total Series-3I,
breaking own record of %.
g. Most runs batted in, total series
e. breaking own record of %.
9. Most extra bases on long hits, one
game, tying own record.
10 Most extra bases on long hits, one
series-12, tying own record.
II. Most extra bases on long hits,
total serieS-4S, beating own record
of SO.
u. Most games in world series-37,
beating Eddie Collins record of "a.
beating own mark of 10.
IA. Most home runs, one game-3,
tying own record.
is. Most total bases, one game-12,
tying own record
16. Most total bases, one series-22,
tying record of Joe Harris
IT, Most total bases, total serieS-85,
beating own record of g.
l8. Most extra base hits, one series
8, beating record of held by self and
others.
10. Most extra base hits. total series
30, beating own record of IA.
Yankees Records.
/. Most successive games won Eight,
beating former record of six and also
creating new mark of two successive
clean sweeps over National League OPP
position.
g. Most times at bat, one club, game
40, in fourth game, beating former rec
ord of 80 by Giants and Cardinals.
8. Most home runs, one club, game
Five, beating record of three shared by
Yankees with Red Sox; also beats rec
ord of four by two clubs.
4. Most home runs, one club, one
series-Nine, beating record of eight by
Washington in 1925.
5. Most home runs, one club, inning
Two, in seventh and eighth innings of
fourth game, equaling record of Giants
and Washington.
g. Most total bases, one club, one
game-32, beating own record of %.
z. Most extra bases, one club, series
"a, beating record of 80 by Washington
in 1925.
Miscellaneous Records.
!. Most victories by pitcher, total
series-Six, by Waite Hoyt, equaling
mark of Chief Bender.
2. Most home runs, one series-Four,
by Lou Gehrig, equaliug record of Babe
Ruth
g. Most runs batted in, one series
Nine, by Gehrig, breaking record of
eight, made by Bob MeuseI in 1928.
4. Largest receipts, one game-$224,-
$50, first game at Yankee Stadium.
S. Most successive bases on balls, one
Or more games-Five, by Gehrig.
6. Most total bases, two clubs, one
game-46, in fourth game, beating mark
of A. by Yankees and Cardinals in 1926.
7. Greatest players pool-$419, 73O. so,
surprising record of 1899, 44O.67 made
last year.