On this day in history, May 25, 1935, Babe Ruth hits his 714th home run

On this day in history, May 25, 1935, at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, baseball great Babe Ruth hit his 714th home run — a record for career home runs that would stand for almost 40 years. 

"This was one of Ruth’s last games, and the last home run of his career," noted History.com of the accomplishment. 

"Ruth went four for four on the day, hitting three home runs and driving in six runs."

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During that memorable baseball game, Ruth smashed his 712th, 713th and 714th home runs.

These last career home runs set a Major League Baseball record that would stand until 1974, when Hank Aaron surpassed it on his way to 755, according to multiple sources.

American baseball player George Herman Ruth (1895-1948) was known as "Babe" Ruth. (MPI/Getty Images)

Ruth had only played in Pittsburgh one previous time, when the Yankees defeated the Pirates in the 1927 World Series. 

By the time he returned to Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field in 1935, Ruth "had become an aging player whose titanic hits would become his final hurrah before retiring eight days later, after several less impressive performances," Sports Illustrated noted. 

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"Had Ruth retired in Pittsburgh, the epitaph on his playing career would have been even more heroic."

Ruth boasted an impressive tally of home runs over a 22-season career — but the game on May 25 was only the second time he’d hit three home runs in a single game, says the same site.

Born George Herman Ruth on Feb. 6, 1895, in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the first of eight children. Only he and a sister survived infancy, says History.com. 

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