"It was 1927 in reverse when the Pirates and Yankees took batting practice yesterday at Forbes Field. Dick Stuart's bombs were falling all over Schenley Plaza, behind the left-field wall. The Yankees had been batting for 20 minutes before anybody hit one out of the park. There's a legend that in 1927 the Yankees shell-shocked the Pirates with their batting-practice home runs. It's a fact that they won the Series in four games. Whether the home runs they hit in batting practice made any difference is open to question."
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Roy McHugh, noting a stark contrast between the respective pre-Series BP sessions of 1927 and 1960 (a distinction which, at least vis-a-vis Dick Stuart's performance, would all but disappear once the first "Play ball!" was uttered); in "Stuart Tattos Schenley Plaza With Long Balls in Practice" by McHugh, in The Pittsburgh Press (Wednesday, October 5, 1960), p. 54
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