Before Babe Ruth set the single season home run record, it belonged to a man named Ned Williamson, who hit a staggering 27 home runs in that lazy, hazy summer of 1884. Do you know why Williamson hit 27 home runs that year when he never hit more than nine in any other season? Well, see, that year the Cubs played their games at the second version of Lake Front Park, a tiny little ballpark with a right field fence less than 200 feet away. That fence was so close that the rule until 1884 was that any ball hit over it was only a ground rule double.
How we will forever remember the 115th U.S. Open
