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Ruth was the first player to hit 30 homers in a season, then the first to hit 40, then 50, then 60 (in 1927). That total stood as the single-season record for 34 years, nearly as long as 714 lasted as the career record (39 years).
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Two days after that, Ruth summoned reporters to the locker room after a game against the Giants and announced he was retiring. He'd wanted to retire as early as May 12, but Fuchs persuaded him to stay on because the Braves hadn't played in every National League park yet. That season, he hit just .181 with six home runs in 72 at-bats. The Braves season went as bad as Ruth's short season. They finished 38-115, the third-worst record in Major League history, just a few percentage points fewer than the infamous 1962 New York Mets. Fuchs finally caved in under mounting debt and lost control of the Braves with just over two months left in the season.
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Julia Ruth Stevens, the Babe's teenage daughter, joined her parents on the journey -- it was her high school graduation present. Their boat docked, and they hopped in cars, but the cars could barely move amid the crush of Japanese fans gathered to greet Ruth.
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Though Babe Ruth is usually remembered as having been very overweight, this is largely because of oft-repeated showings of newsreels taken late in his career. Ruth was a large man who did indeed battle weight gain (especially given his sometimes careless diet), but for much of his career he was not especially overweight. In fact, photographs from his early career (such as the ones accompanying this article) show a trim and athletic Ruth.
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In 1921, Columbia University had Ruth undergo a series of tests to determine his athletic and psychological capability. Here are some of their findings, from an article by sportswriter Hugh Fullerton in Popular Science Monthly:
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