Editing Ground rule double (section)

==History==
In the early years of baseball, batted balls that cleared the fence in fair territory on the fly ''or after a bounce'' were counted as home runs. The rule was changed by the [[American League]] before the {{mlby|1929}} season and by the [[National League (baseball)|National League]] before the {{mlby|1931}} season.<ref name=Bounce/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/48818555/changes-are-made-in-the-baseball/ |title=Changes are Made in the Baseball Playing Rules by Joint Rules Committee |newspaper=Santa Cruz Evening News |location=[[Santa Cruz, California]] |page=8 |date=December 17, 1930 |access-date=April 16, 2020 |via=newspapers.com}}</ref> Baseball records did not differentiate between home runs that cleared the fence on the fly and those that bounced over. Notably, this includes most of [[Babe Ruth]]'s career, including when he hit 60 home runs in [[1927 New York Yankees season|1927]], although there is no evidence any of Ruth’s home runs bounced before going over the fence.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/19/sports/l-babe-s-bounces-962635.html |title=Babe's Bounces |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=8.11 |date=July 19, 1998 |access-date=April 16, 2020 |via=nytimes.com}}</ref> The last "bounce" home run in MLB was hit by [[Al López]] of the [[1930 Brooklyn Robins season|Brooklyn Robins]] on September 12, 1930, at [[Ebbets Field]].<ref name=Bounce>{{cite web |url=https://baseballhall.org/discover/inside-pitch/al-lopez-hits-last-bounce-home-run |title=Future Hall of Famer Al López Hits the Last 'Bounce' Home Run in Big League History |website=Baseball Hall of Fame |first=Connor |last=O'Gara |access-date=April 16, 2020 |archive-date=October 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016175844/https://baseballhall.org/discover/inside-pitch/al-lopez-hits-last-bounce-home-run |url-status=dead }}</ref>