Babe Ruth and the rest of the 1927 Yankees' Murderers' Row
The 1927 Yankees roster wasn’t nicknamed Murderers’ Row recklessly.
Decades before power was a well-embraced part of the game of baseball, the Yankees innovated in the department, surrounding Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig with a requisite cadre of mashers (as well as a few Hall of Famers in the rotation, too).
Though the name has come to describe the entire outfit, the first six hitters were the true “murderers” — Earle Combs, Mark Koenig, Ruth, Gehrig, Bob Meusel, and Tony Lazzeri. Combs and Lazzeri would eventually join their three-four combo in Cooperstown; Combs was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1970, and Lazzeri joined him posthumously in 1991.