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Originally Posted by Eckstein 4 Prez
In fact, until the 1920s, this was true even on home runs. If memory serves, Babe Ruth had at least one walk-off home run in his career that wasn't counted as a home run because that's not how they scored it back then.
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Here is the Retrosheet page that discusses this phenomenon. Babe Ruth's lost home run was on July 8, 1918, when he scored a runner from first with a home run and was credited with a triple.