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Did they take a Slam away from Gehrig? There's a baseball card from 1973 that says he had 23. Maybe it included postseason?

I was today years old when I learned:

The year 1925 wasn't just the year Gehrig took over for Wally Pipp at first base; it was also the year in which he belted the first of his 23 grand slams that stood as a record for generations. Gehrig's bases-loaded blast off Senators pitcher Firpo Marberry on July 21, 1925, actually bounced off the left-field grass before landing in the stands at old Yankee Stadium, meaning it would have been a ground-rule double under today's rules. It was good enough for a slam at the time, however, and Gehrig certainly had no trouble proving he could clear the fences over the rest of his legendary career.
 

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I was today years old when I learned:

The year 1925 wasn't just the year Gehrig took over for Wally Pipp at first base; it was also the year in which he belted the first of his 23 grand slams that stood as a record for generations. Gehrig's bases-loaded blast off Senators pitcher Firpo Marberry on July 21, 1925, actually bounced off the left-field grass before landing in the stands at old Yankee Stadium, meaning it would have been a ground-rule double under today's rules. It was good enough for a slam at the time, however, and Gehrig certainly had no trouble proving he could clear the fences over the rest of his legendary career.


Honestly makes me wonder about some of those HR totals from the teens and twenties
 

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Honestly makes me wonder about some of those HR totals from the teens and twenties
Yeah I'm pretty sure Ruth had a few like that but as far as I know they are still part of the 714. It is interesting that they took that stand with the Grand Slam record.
 

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The Gehrig grandslam total of 22 could be a StatHead glitch or a mistake by me setting the filters.
 
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