With five games left in the 1938 season, Hank Greenberg had hit 58 home runs. In those last five games, several pitchers chose to walk Greenberg rather than give him a chance to break Babe Ruth's single- season home run record of 60. Many observers believed that major league baseball did not want a Jew breaking Ruth's record. Here is Greenberg on September 6, 1938. 7 x 9". EX.