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From the middle of April through early September, Ruth and
Gehrig raced for the home run title. The 1927 Yankees are
widely regarded as the greatest team ever assembled, and
they won so often—an American League record 110
games—that at times the news
stories focused less on the outcome of the games than on the
chase within the games. On July 9, for instance, as the
Yankees split a doubleheader with the Tigers, Ruth poked
two homers, catching Gehrig with number 28 and passing him
with number 29. "The
king is back on his throne again," Richards Vidmer led
his story in the Times. The paper had dubbed the
Ruth-Gehrig race the Great American Home Run Derby.
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