Vintage Photos News Record Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig Twelve thousand spectators brought baseball fever to Cameron Field on October 29, 1929 when legend ballplayers Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig played in an exhibition game for South Orange. Witnesses to this celebrity event each paid the one-dollar admission to squeeze into the grandstands and crowd around the diamond. Ruth hit a home run into the right field stands and Gehrig hit two homers. One of Gehrig's shots traveled 600 feet as it cleared the centerfield wall and Lackawanna railroad tracks to hit a house on Vose Avenue. Fourteen dozen baseballs were used that day when South Orange defeated New Brunswick 7 - 6. (Courtesy South Orange Public Library) Return to Vintage Photos