Today in Sports – Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth hits his first MLB home run
1895 — African American jockey James “Soup” Perkins guides Halma to a wire-to-wire victory in the Kentucky Derby. The 15-12 months-previous joins fellow African American jockey Alonzo Clayton because the youngest jockey to trip a Derby winner. 1915 — Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth hits his first MLB home run. 1917 —…