Another fun fact.
There was no foul pole until 1932, so even on balls over the fence where it landed counted if it was foul or fair. So those hook shots that wrap around the Pesky Poles would have been called foul back in Ruth’s day.
It is guestimated Ruth would have had about 75-100 more career home runs if he had a fould pole like today.
Also there were no ground rule doubles either, a ball bouncing over the fence was also a homerun but fences were so high back in the day Ruth never hit a ground rule homerun, and Gehrig only hit one in his career.
At Fenway the Splendid Splinter used to hit the ball just short of the right field fence by a few feet quiet often. So, Mr Yawkee decided to move the bull pens from the sidelines along first and third base to right outfield where they are today. Ted Williams home runs/season increased quiet a bit after the bull pen relocation.
His longest home run can still be seen as the only RED seat in the Bleaches section of Fenway Park:
Section 42, row 37, seat 21
502 feet from Home Plate
http://www.fenwayfanatics.com/fenway-park/features/red-seat/