Yankee Stadium (1923) events and football. The large electronic scoreboard in right-center field, featuring both teams' lineups and scores of other baseball games, was the first of its kind. As Yankee Stadium owed its creation largely to Ruth, its design partially accommodated the game's left-handed-hitting slugger. Initially the fence was from home plate down the right-field line, referred to as the "short porch" and to near right field, compared with to the deepest part of center field, nicknamed "Death Valley". The right-field bleachers were appropriately nicknamed "Ruthville". Although the right field fences were eventually pushed back after the 1974–1975 renovations, they were still
Ruth Fairfax House the Public Trustee sold the house to John Cockburn in November 1910. In 1927 it was purchased by George Maxted, a Brisbane bookmaker. It was sold again in October 1947 to the Queensland Country Women's Association (CWA) to be used as their Brisbane headquarter (their headquarters previously were in Toowoomba). Following the death of Ruth Fairfax, the first Queensland President of the CWA, on 1 February 1948, when the CWA officially opened their new office on 10 February 1948, they named the building Ruth Fairfax House in her memory. The house was used as their headquarters until 1960 when they