Baseball Diamond Dimensions

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Baseba: What were the usual dimensions of a baseball park in the early 1900′s?

I kinow they were crazy high becuase people lead the league in homers with like 10 for an etire season and babe ruth once hit like 50, more than any TEAM!!!, and they estimated if ruth played today that number would be close to 120-130, but how far exactly were usual diamonds??

I agree that a lot of the eary ballparks were odd in dimensions because they very often were shoehorned into neighborhoods.
I did a little looking, and found that, while some of the ballparks were unusually large, some of them were also actually smaller than the ballpoarks of today. And looking at the AL ballparks of Ruth’s day, you find that, while some of them were a bit large, a good number of them were around 300-350 down the lines and around 420 to centerfield. yes, there were some ballparks that were ridiculously deep in spots (Tiger Stadium originally was 467′ to dead center, the Polo Grounds was about 480′), but veruy often they had other places that were short (The Polo Grounds was only 257′ down the right field line.)
The idea that the ballparks were so huge that Ruth’s 60 homers in 1927 would amount to 120 today is probably a huge overestimation. Ruth would hav eplayed a few years in the Polo Grounds as a member of the Yankees, and from 1923 – 1934 played in Yankee Stadium. And the distance down the right field line (the important one for a left handed pull hitter) was only 314′.
The main difference in what Ruth accomplished was really a matter of the strategy being different. Home runs were looked upon more as a freak occurence. Players were more likely to simply try to put the ball in play, rather than swinging hard (Strikeout totals are low for that era as a result). Also, before 1920, the spit ball was legal, and baseballs were kept in play for a longer period of time. But as Ruth hit home runs, baseball changed the rules a bit – not allowing the spitter was one, having fresher, cleaner balls in play was another (done also as a result of Ray Chapman’s death after getting hit by a scuffed, dirty baseball that he may have bnever even seen). The biggest difference between Ruth and the other players was not so much that he was capable of hitting the ball all that much further, but more that he was willing to try to do so, rather than simply trying to make contact. Eventually the other players caught up, and the difference in Ruth’s power numbers as compared to the rest of the league diminished.
So while Ruth perhaps lost a few home runs hitting in a few larger ballparks, he also probably got some cheap 320′ ones as well. So while maybe Ruth could have hit a few more dingers in today’s game, I doubt the number would be even close to 120-130 a season. I would guess that the people who stated that were merely saying it in the context of the number of home runs he hit as compared to the norm of that time, rather than a statement that he would have had that many more if he played today.

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