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| August 01, 2004 | Harwell, William Earnest | COPYRIGHT 2004 Century Publishing Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Sometimes as a reader you get zapped by a most inconsequential statement. It happened to me earlier in the season. I was reading a great article comparing the records of Barry Bonds and Babe Ruth.

The sentence was lost in a long paragraph near the end of the story. It was even in parentheses.

"(Ruth was not walked intentionally once in his entire career)." That's what it said.

Wait a minute, I told myself. That can't be right. Such a statement seems impossible. The home run king of his era was a feared hitter. Surely, he was intentionally walked many times.

Didn't I read somewhere long ago that the Babe's nemesis, Hub Pruett, once walked him intentionally with the bases loaded?

So I phoned Seymour Siwoff, president of the Elias Sports Bureau, official record keeper for the major leagues.

What about it? I asked him. Was the Babe ever walked intentionally?

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