In 1936, Moore played in 151 games for the Boston Bees, batting .290, with 185 hits, 38 doubles, 12 triples, and 91 runs scored – all career-highs. On May 1, facing Pittsburgh's Waite Hoyt, Moore made Forbes Field history, becoming the first left-handed batter to launch a home run over that stadium's distant left-field wall, as well as the first to clear its then eleven-year-old, 24-foot-high scoreboard.[2][a] (Scarcely one year later, he would become the first and only player to perform this feat twice.)[5][6]
^As if that were not enough, just three innings earlier, Moore had achieved what may well have also been a Forbes Field first by powering what would end up an uncontested inside-the-park home run more than 430 feet to dead center, where it struck the Barney Dreyfuss Memorial on the fly and caromed back towards the infield, allowing Moore to score standing up without a throw.[3][4]
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