In 1920, when Babe Ruth alone hit 54 homers, Griffith Stadium yield just 12, 5 for the home team and 7 for the visitors. In 1924, the year Washington won its only world championship, the team clubbed a single home run in their home park. In 1945, a year when Washington finished a game and half behind the pennant-winning Detroit Tigers, the team hit just a single home run at home - and it was an inside-the-parker. Only in 1918 (when Washington hit just 2 homers at home), 19 did Griffith Stadium not lead the league in either fewest home runs by the home team or fewest by the visiting team.Įven in the live ball era, Griffith Stadium yielded an amazingly few home runs, the tops for a season before 1956 being 60 in 1938 - at that, it was still the lowest total in the Majors. From 1933, the last year Washington won the American League pennant, until 1953 - 21 years consecutive years - Griffith Stadium yielded the fewest home runs in the Majors. Over that 41-year span, the Washington ballpark yielded the fewest home runs among the sixteen Major League venues in 34 different seasons. Griffith Stadium was the long-time home of the first Washington Nationals - and yes, the American League franchise was, officially at least, called the "Nationals" until 1956 - was the most difficult park in Major Leagues in which to hit a home run.įrom 1915, four years after the ballpark opened, until 1955, the year Clark Griffith died and a year before the fences were moved in, very few hitters drove the ball out of the park at Griffith Stadium. Griffith Stadium shown prior to the 1941 season home opener.
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