September 1934 (Des Moines Register)
"Iowa Boy More Than Fulfilling Early Promise"
"Already Has 31 Home Runs to Credit"
"Nine months ago, William Harridge and Steve O'Neill made the prediction that the Babe Ruth of the near future was going to be a 200-pound youngster with the Cleveland Indians, and today their statement looms as a reality, even sooner than they themselves expected it to be. The youngster is Harold (Hal) Trosky, the Norway, Ia., product who has carved for himself a niche among the batting leaders of the American league in his first full season."
"Standing six feet, two inches in height and bearing a pair of powerful arms and shoulders, Trosky hits the well known 'apple' tremendous distances, and, like the famous Bambino, the top of the rightfield fence is his favorite target. Thirty-one times this season the powerful bat of the Iowa youth has propelled the ball over that rightfield barrier and that total has hoisted him into the leaders in the major league circuit swatting race. Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx are the only two American league batsmen to have hit more homers this season than Trosky."
"The pace Hal has set in the American league race this season is almost as brilliant as his batting in the American association last year. The Iowan played about hald of the season at first-base for Toldeo, and poled 33 home runs and averaged .333 - which is real hitting in any man's league."
"Harridge, president of the American league, was one of the first to see Trosky's possibilities. Watching him in spring practice in New Orleans, La., last year, Harridge unhesitatingly dubbed Trosky 'the future Babe Ruth.'"
"Already Has 31 Home Runs to Credit"
"Nine months ago, William Harridge and Steve O'Neill made the prediction that the Babe Ruth of the near future was going to be a 200-pound youngster with the Cleveland Indians, and today their statement looms as a reality, even sooner than they themselves expected it to be. The youngster is Harold (Hal) Trosky, the Norway, Ia., product who has carved for himself a niche among the batting leaders of the American league in his first full season."
"Standing six feet, two inches in height and bearing a pair of powerful arms and shoulders, Trosky hits the well known 'apple' tremendous distances, and, like the famous Bambino, the top of the rightfield fence is his favorite target. Thirty-one times this season the powerful bat of the Iowa youth has propelled the ball over that rightfield barrier and that total has hoisted him into the leaders in the major league circuit swatting race. Lou Gehrig and Jimmy Foxx are the only two American league batsmen to have hit more homers this season than Trosky."
"The pace Hal has set in the American league race this season is almost as brilliant as his batting in the American association last year. The Iowan played about hald of the season at first-base for Toldeo, and poled 33 home runs and averaged .333 - which is real hitting in any man's league."
"Harridge, president of the American league, was one of the first to see Trosky's possibilities. Watching him in spring practice in New Orleans, La., last year, Harridge unhesitatingly dubbed Trosky 'the future Babe Ruth.'"
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