Mandatory Credit: History<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRuth split his career between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees. In 1927, Ruth hit a stunning 60 home runs in his most prolific season. Furthermore, he was one of the sport’s first major superstars. He became a celebrity and a cultural icon over time. He won three World Series and led the league in home runs on 12 occasions. Ruth retains his mystique because of his consistent brilliance.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many people believe that the Hall of Fame is baseball’s most exclusive club. However, that’s not necessarily true. Cooperstown has inducted over 300 total members, yet there are only 28 members in the 500 home run Club. Furthermore, the only way to get there is to be among the best power hitters season after season. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":71849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"lang":"en","translations":{"en":71803},"pll_sync_post":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.sportscroll.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.sportscroll.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.sportscroll.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.sportscroll.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.sportscroll.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71803"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/develop.sportscroll.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71850,"href":"https:\/\/develop.sportscroll.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71803\/revisions\/71850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.sportscroll.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.sportscroll.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.sportscroll.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.sportscroll.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}