Casey Stengel slides home to complete his inside-the-park home run in Game 1 of the 1923 World Series at Yankee Stadium on October 10, 1923 — two outs in the top of the ninth, the score tied 4-4, when the New York Giants outfielder drove a full-count fastball from Bullet Joe Bush to the deepest part of left-center field, circled the bases with one shoe coming loose and beat the relay home for a 5-4 win. The Yankees had led 3-0 before Heinie Groh's triple tied the game in the third and Joe Dugan's triple tied it again in the seventh; Babe Ruth never homered in the game, and in the fifth he was thrown out at the plate trying to steamroll Giants catcher Frank Snyder. Stengel's drive was the first World Series home run ever hit at Yankee Stadium. Two days later he beat the Yankees again, homering off Sam Jones in the seventh for the only run of Art Nehf's 1-0 shutout in Game 3, then thumbing his nose at the Yankee bench and blowing kisses to the crowd as he circled the bases. Yankees owner Jacob Ruppert demanded a suspension, but Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis refused, saying, "Casey Stengel just can't help being Casey Stengel." Stengel, a 33-year-old platoon outfielder, batted .417 for the Series — but the Yankees won it in six games for their first championship, taking Game 6 on October 15, 6-4, and a month later the Giants traded Stengel to the Boston Braves. Baseball mostly remembered the clown. Stengel managed Brooklyn and Boston through nine second-division seasons in the 1930s and '40s before the Yankees hired the man who had beaten them — and from 1949 through 1960, back in the same ballpark, he won 10 pennants and seven World Series titles as their manager.