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The Toronto Blue Jays will honour perhaps the greatest player in baseball history on Tuesday night.


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Babe Ruth reigned as major-league baseball's all-time home run king until 1974, when Hank Aaron surpassed him.
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Then they'll tangle with some of the finest players of the present day.

A grandson of New York Yankees legend Babe Ruth will throw the ceremonial first pitch at Rogers Centre before the Blue Jays take on the American League East-leading Bronx Bombers in the second of a three-game set (7 p.m. ET).

Along with his first-pitch duties, Tom Stevens will present two plaques adorned with his grandfather's image to be displayed on the Toronto Islands, where Ruth hit the first home run of his professional career as a 19-year-old pitcher for the minor-league Providence Grays.

The blast came on Sept. 5, 1914, during a game at the old stadium on Hanlan's Point, where Ruth's Grays were playing the Toronto Maple Leafs.

The Babe became a star batsman and pitcher for the Boston Red Sox before he was sold to the Yankees. In New York, Ruth became the greatest slugger baseball had ever seen and a cultural icon, ending his major-league career in 1935 with a then record 714 home runs.

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