The 500 Club

 With my entry here, I will enter this site's 500 club which, next to the prodigious posts of TopBilled, Fading Fast, et al., isn't typing much.
 With this in mind, I turn to MLB's 500 home runs club - when it too had more exclusivity - in the context of film and television...

 When Babe Ruth inaugurated the 500 club on August 11, 1929, it would be another eleven years and a few weeks before the next player - Jimmie Foxx - would join the Sultan of Swat, and Ruth's status as a once fine pitcher-turned-perpetual hide shredder is somewhat reflected in his IMDb resume which includes THE PRIDE OF THE YANKEES where a cameo of the aged slugger suggests he was as comfortable in front of the camera as he had been in front of a crowd:   

                                        

 To put his appearance in the 1942 movie in perspective, consider there was no Internet nor TCM to offer Babe Ruth in motion and sound for some time, so it was a treat to get to view Ruth within the movie for this then-ballplaying child back in the first half of the 1970s...
 The photos of Babe Ruth in the 1920s and '30s eventually was an interest later supplanted by photos of Norma Shearer in the 1920s and '30s. Both are synonymous with the cloche culture of those years:

                                                                                           

 On September 13, 1965, another giant of baseball, Willie Mays, joined the 500 club and, like Babe Ruth before him, there also was an impressive relativity to his 500 roundtrips: Mays missed approximately 1 and 4/5 of his young years due to obligatory military service and later played a notable chunk of his career in notorious Candlestick Park where an ill wind often blew. Both Candlestick and Mays seen here on television: 

                                                                        

 Like Babe Ruth, the 13th player reaching the 500 club, Reggie Jackson, was southpaw strong 'n' sweet and, like Willie Mays, could also point to occupying a stingy Northern Californian ballpark for a notable chunk of his career as well...
 Tiger Stadium was more to his swing:
                                                                                           
                                                                         

 That transformer rip is said to have been the inspiration for the light spectacular of The NATURAL (1984).