The Internet Challenge

Keyword Search - Example of a restrictive search of indexed document text
Confirmation of the result
Babe Ruth SPORTS: How many homeruns did Babe Ruth hit AND how many times did he go to bat to establish this record?
  • Entered +"Babe Ruth" +homeruns +record into AltaVista
  • Found a number of sites stating 714 career homeruns.
  • Repeated text search with +"Babe Ruth" +714 +"AB"
  • Found The Greatest of Them All (link broken) at www.phillynews.com.
    G    AB    R    H    2B  3B  HR  RBI  BB   SO   SB  Avg.  
2503 8399  2174 2873 506 136 714 2209 2056 1330 123 .342
    Ans: 714 homeruns in 8399 at-bats.
    BONUS ans: Only two of these homeruns were grand slams!

  • Note that a page from the same source shows the career stats for Hank Aaron (link broken), who held the record for the most homeruns in baseball (prior to 1998!), albeit in many more at-bats...
    G    AB    R    H    2B  3B  HR  RBI  BB   SO   SB  Avg.
3298 12364 2174 3771 624 98  755 2297 1402 1383 240 .305
  • Confirmed by repeating text search with +"Babe Ruth +714 +8399
  • See Hall of Famers: Babe Ruth, a page that reports statistics excerpted from "The Baseball Encyclopedia," 8th Edition, (c) 1990.
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