“It cleared the signboard in deep center field and was the longest drive ever seen in the local park…The ball sailed out of the lot right where the new addition to the signboard joins the old…within a short distance of the flagpole.” Washington Herald - May 8, 1921

"Ruth's homer over the right field fence here on May 7 cleared the barrier 426 feet from home plate, by actual measurement. The fence is 48 feet high, and its trajectory was such that it could not have been less than 500 feet, and probably went considerably more." The Sporting News - June 30, 1921

"BATTERIN' BAMBINO BUSTS ALL RECORDS"

"All records in distance hitting fell before the mighty bludgeon of Babe Ruth at Dunn Field this afternoon when the New York Hercules slammed the ball into the center field stands."

"Ruth hit the ball high and far over the head of (Tris) Speaker and it nestles in the seats, up near the top." New York Daily News - May 14, 1921

"Babe's" [eleventh home run of the season] was the mightiest wallop ever seen in this city. It went into the extreme center field bleachers."
"Had Ruth been playing on the Polo Grounds at home there is little doubt that he would have driven this ball into the center field bleachers. The leather passed over the wire screen that rises twelve feet above the playing green and landed two rows from the top of the seats." New York Tribune - May 14, 1921

"Babe Ruth uncorked the only circuit drive that has ever been hit into the old wooden bleachers back of left centre field."

"The Babe's homer was his eleventh of the season and received from the fans the plaudits it deserved. More than 20,000 persons saw the blow delivered that wrecked the Tribal hopes, and they cheered the Babe to the echo as he cantered round the paths."
Special to the New York Daily Herald - May 15 ,1921

"TREMENDOUS DRIVE PUTS YANKS IN FRONT"

"The next one was just where [Babe] wanted it and he smashed it far over the [pitcher's] head for the annual version of "the longest home run ever hit on these grounds.""
Special to the New York Times - May 25, 1921

“It was the longest circuit clout recorded at Sportsman’s Park since the present grandstand was built approximately twelve years ago… titanic clout… far over Jacobson’s head and into the bleachers at a point near the flagpole.”
St. Louis Star - May 26, 1921

“[t]itanic smash into the center field bleachers, a sector which never before had felt the impact of a batted ball and was perhaps the longest ever made at the local baseball plant.”
New York American - May 26, 1921

“[i]nto the center field bleachers just a trifle south of the seats that squarely face the plate… the drive easily measured 500 feet at a rough minimum estimate.”
St. Louis Globe Democrat - May 26, 1921

"BABE SWATS OUT 24TH HOME RUN: WINS FOR YANKS"

"Ruth came in and delivered his wallop that won."

"It came in the tenth inning with the score tied, and clearing the center field fence by ten feet, struck on the far side of Lansdowne Street. "

"Home runs of this sort are a fitting climax to a thrilling contest, this was one of the type." Special to the New York Daily News - June 20, 1921

“over center field fence and bounced off garage on far side of street.”
New York Tribune - June 21, 1921

"Ruth had walked in all four previous at-bats. With the count 1-and-1, Ruth “found one to his liking” and put such force into the ball that it “disappeared from view at the spot where the wooden fence at the far end of the center field bleachers connect with the concrete walls at the corner of Cherry and Trumbull avenues.”

“Detroit statisticians aver that it is 560 feet from the plate to the point where the ball soared out of sight over the centre field barrier, and they brought out the old surveying rod and sextant to prove the contention.”

"That could mean that ball actually traveled farther than 560 feet before landing."

“Yanks, Win, 10 to 1; Ruth’s Record Blow” Detroit Free Press - July 19, 1921

“Ruth Hits His Longest Homer; Yanks Win, 10-1,” Chicago Tribune - July 19, 1921

"RUTH'S 37TH HOMER"

"The Yankees lone run came in the sixth when Babe Ruth scored his 37th home run of the season. It was a mighty blow, the pellet landing near the top of the right field bleachers, just below the clock." Brooklyn Eagle - July 31, 1921

“[t]errific smash into the bleachers in the deepest point in right center field.”
New York Daily News - July 31, 1921

"Babe Ruth extended his new home run record up to the thirty-second notch yesterday."

"This latest edition to the Ruth collection was one of Babe's rare gems, the ball going over the top of the right field grandstand." New York Herald - August 1, 1921

“Somewhere in old Manhattan Field, not far from the curb line on the east side of 8th Avenue, a ball is embedded in the mud…over the roof…not far from the end of the horseshoe stand…gave the famous Detroit drive a run for distance.”
New York Times - August 1, 1921

"RECORD CLOUT BY RUTH IN CHICAGO"

"BABE'S FORTY-FIFTH HOMER IS LONGEST EVER IN WHITE SOX PARK"

"They go out to see Babe Ruth  hit a home run. And in this city they were not disappointed yesterday. The four-base wallop made by Bambino was his forty-fifth of the year. And it was the longest drive ever made at Mr. Comiskey's park."

"He hit the ball squarely on the nose. The pill sailed almost on a line toward the right center field fence. It rose as it traveled and cleared the bleachers in right center. It landed  away back in the soccer field which adjoins the Sox park on the right."

"Ruth's drive probably established a new major league record."
Chicago Herald & Examiner - August 18, 1921

“Its course was a direct line for dead right center. Not a Chicago outfielder made a move for it, knowing moves were useless. They just turned and followed the ball in its flight. About the time Babe reached second, it sailed clear over the bleachers, out near the scoreboard. Probably the boys in the top row saw it fifteen or twenty feet over their heads.” 

“All the bleacherites ran to the back of the place to see where the end would be. Small boys and working men out on the vacant lots were seen to run for it, over toward Wentworth Avenue.” Chicago Daily Tribune - August 18, 1921

"BABE GETS 49TH"

"Home run number 49 of Babe Ruth's 1921 collection swung in and out of the picture in the seventh inning, taking no more time than is required to mention it. With Peckinpaugh on first base, the stage was properly set for one of Babe's four-ply slams, and the Babe obliged by hitting one so fast that many found it impossible to follow the course of the ball." Boston Herald - September 2, 1921

“Babe obliged by hitting one so fast that many found it impossible to follow. The course of the ball…carrying over the westerly corner of the bleachers and then over the runway into the vacant lot south of the Polo Grounds.” New York Times - September 3, 1921

“The Sultan of Swat swatted the ball so hard that few in the stands were able to tell what had become of it…when the ball was last seen it was flying over the extreme end of the roof of the right-field stand and was headed for Eighth Avenue.”
New York Tribune - September 9, 1921

“[h]it over the grand stand way down near the easternmost eaves.”
New York Herald - September 3, 1921

"MIGHTY BAMBINO EQUALS OWN RECORD OF HOME RUNS BY BANGING BALL OVER LEFT CENTER FIELD FENCE"

"Ruth's homer was probably the greatest drive ever hit at Shibe Field. The ball sailed high in the air into deep left center and cleared the Somerset Street wall of the park..."
Watertown Daily Times - September 19, 1921

"BABE RUTH NOW AFTER NEW HOME-RUN RECORD"

"Ruth's wallop yesterday was a tremendous drive over the left field wall. Officials of the club who measured it said that the ball went more than 500 feet."
Lockport Union Sun and Journal - September 10, 1921

"EQUALS 1920 HOME RUNS WITH THREE WEEKS TO GO"

"Babe Ruth tied his home run record here Friday when he made his fifty-fourth four-master of the season. In honor of the event, Ruth turned out about as remarkable a circuit crack as he has made in his career.. For the first time since Shibe Park has been built, and it has been standing since 1909, the ball has been batted over the center field bleacher wall. That was Ruth's homer. It was a mighty wallop. The ball was hit high and carried far.  It soared over the heads of the bleacher fans seated in the center field edge and disappeared among the trees on Somerset Street."
Watertown Daily Times - September 10, 1921

"After the game, John Shibe instructed his groundskeeper to measure the distance from home plate to the part of the wall where the ball vanished. It measured 500 feet. Of course the ball traveled farther. In Detroit the Bambino made a 585 foot shot. The drive at least equalled that one." The Sporting News - September 15, 1921

"Babe Ruth played today despite the advice of a physician to take two days' rest. The injury cut down the case with which Ruth ordinarily swings at balls. His hitting was done with a snap motion." New York Evening Herald - October 10, 1921

"BABE RUTH IN BANDAGES, HITS HOME RUN IN VAIN STRUGGLE"

"On his left elbow there was a clean white bandage and a big wad of absorbent cotton where the doctor had bundled him up for the fray."

"[In the ninth, The Bambino] hit the leather a whale of a swing and it bounded off the wall of the upper right field tier into the right field bleachers for a home run."

New York Daily News - October 10, 1921

"Although the Yanks were strangled in defeat at the time the home run was delivered, the huge crowd gave the Bambino a tumultuous salvo of applause as he circled the bases."

"The wound was bleeding when Ruth had the bandages removed in the Yanks' dressing room immediately after the game." New York Tribune - October 10, 1921

"[Babe's home run] afforded a big thrill for the spectators many of whom had come thousands of miles to see the big fellow turn such a trick."
New York Evening Herald - October 10, 1921

"[Babe] whipped it against the end of the right field grandstand cornice and it bounded high into the bleachers." Boston Herald - October 10, 1921