Ruth may or may not have called his. But former player and Mariners announcer Mike Blowers, asked before the game for his prediction of the game, predicted a rookie player would hit a homer -- his first in the bigs -- into the second deck in left-center in his second at-bat on a 3-1 fastball. Man did it.
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