Babe Ruth

Celebrate Babe Ruth’s moonshot into Kirby Park at first-ever Home Run Derby

WILKES-BARRE — On October 12, 1926, Babe Ruth visited Artillery Park in Wilkes-Barre to play in an exhibition barnstorming game between Hughestown and Larksville. And on that day, he hit what he himself felt was the longest home run he’d ever hit.

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