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From "Babe" Ruth, holder of the record for number of home runs in a season from 1919 to 1961, and for home runs in a career from 1921 to 1974.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ruthian
Today it means: Prodigiously accomplished with respect to batting, typically describing the flight of a long home run. Full definition →