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Babe Ruth's 60th Home Run Yankee Stadium, New York City, Sept...
...bunch of homers. Since joining the Yankees back in 1920 after his sensational trade from the Boston Red Sox, he had been averaging 44 a year--54 in that first year alone. In the process he changed baseball. His upward swing and the short right-field fence in Yankee Stadium--the House That Ruth Built, which opened in 1923--would lead the 1927 Yanks to the pennant. At the end of the season, on a 1-1 pitch against Washington's Tom Zachary, he set a home-run record that would stand for 34 years. BABE SMACKS SIXTIETH CIRCUIT SWAT...
England's World Cup Wembley Stadium, July...
...Japan BoA Concert [April 5, 6] She is the first Korean star to rise to the No. 1 spot on the Japanese music charts. Sixteen-year-old diva BoA will perform at Tokyo's Yoyogi National Stadium in her first Japanese tour since her fourth single Listen to My Heart sold more than 100,000 copies in the country in early 2002. Call (813) 3489 9999 regarding tickets...
...mosque town of Pelaihari in Indonesia's South Kalimantan province to see the country's hottest and most controversial dangdut singer. They're rowdy, they're eager and, in clear defiance of the laws of physics, all 10,000 of them want in, now, through the soccer stadium's single narrow entrance. The snarling soldiers posted as security are helpless against this crush of sweating humanity. Somehow we all push through safely, and for a moment we pause inside the stadium, the open space disorienting after such close quarters. Then Inul swaggers on stage, packed in tight red jeans...