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The 12 Most Iconic Moments in Baseball History

by YPB Team

Some of these you have seen a thousand times in slow motion. Others survive mostly in a radio call.

  1. Babe Ruth's called shot — ranked #11
    Babe Ruth's called shot
    Game 3 of the 1932 World Series at Wrigley Field, where Ruth pointed at something and then hit it out.
  2. Jackie Robinson breaks the colour line — ranked #22
    Jackie Robinson breaks the colour line
    April 15, 1947 at Ebbets Field, the day Major League Baseball stopped being segregated.
  3. Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World — ranked #33
    Bobby Thomson's Shot Heard 'Round the World
    The 1951 pennant-winning home run at the Polo Grounds and the radio call that outlived it.
  4. Hank Aaron passes Babe Ruth — ranked #44
    Hank Aaron passes Babe Ruth
    Home run 715 in Atlanta in 1974, hit through years of hate mail and death threats.
  5. Carlton Fisk waves it fair — ranked #55
    Carlton Fisk waves it fair
    The 1975 World Series Game 6 home run, and the arm-waving that changed how baseball is filmed.
  6. Cal Ripken Jr. plays game 2,131 — ranked #66
    Cal Ripken Jr. plays game 2,131
    The 1995 night the ironman record fell and the game got a feel-good story it badly needed.
  7. The Red Sox come back from 3-0 — ranked #77
    The Red Sox come back from 3-0
    The 2004 ALCS against the Yankees, the only time a team has recovered from that hole.
  8. The Cubs win the 2016 World Series — ranked #88
    The Cubs win the 2016 World Series
    Game 7 in extra innings, ending a 108-year wait.
  9. Lou Gehrig's farewell speech — ranked #99
    Lou Gehrig's farewell speech
    July 4, 1939 at Yankee Stadium, the luckiest-man speech given by a dying man.
  10. Don Larsen's perfect game — ranked #1010
    Don Larsen's perfect game
    The only perfect game in World Series history, thrown in 1956.
  11. Willie Mays' over-the-shoulder catch — ranked #1111
    Willie Mays' over-the-shoulder catch
    The 1954 World Series grab at the Polo Grounds still known simply as The Catch.
  12. Roger Maris hits 61 — ranked #1212
    Roger Maris hits 61
    The 1961 home run that passed Ruth's single-season record and got an asterisk for its trouble.
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Comments

Every other entry here has hard edges, a perfect game or a walk-off or a debut, and his is a 1932 gesture nobody has decoded: https://youpick.best/articles/babe-ruth-ranked-many-ways

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