Bill Kirby Jr.: Babe Ruth's first home run landed in Mallett's Mill Pond
When it comes to naming the downtown baseball stadium playing field, Bill Powers is not the only one who would like to see the city and the Fayetteville Woodpeckers pay homage to March 7, 1914 when the teenager Babe Ruth would launch his first professional home run 135 yards out of the Cape Fear Fairgrounds along Gillespie Street and into Mallett’s Mill Pond.Maurice Fleishman was an eye-witness to the home run. He was age 12, and the bat boy for the Baltimore Orioles in the intrasquad […]
