The Myth and Mystery of Baseball’s Greatest Home Run Ed Sherman Primary Author mixed material bibliography Lyons Press 2015 en English

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Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the Cubs and Yankees stood locked at 4-4. Above the almost deafening noise of the 50,000-strong crowd, Babe Ruth could hear the barbs pouring at him from the Cubs’ dugout. He took the first pitch for a strike. Cubs’ pitcher Charlie Root threw two balls, and Ruth watched a fastball cut the corner to set the count at 2 and 2. On the on-deck circle, Lou Gehrig heard Ruth call out to Root: “I’m going to knock the next one down your goddamn throat.” Ruth took a deep breath, raised his arm, and held out two fingers toward centerfield. Root wound up and threw a change-up curve, low and away. The ball compressed on impact with Ruth’s bat and began its long journey into history, whizzing past the centerfield flag pole (estimates put its distance at nearly 500 feet). Ruth practically sprinted around the bases, flashing four fingers at the Cubs: The series was going to be over in four games. In that moment, the legend of the Called Shot was born, but the debate over what Ruth had actually done on October 1, 1932, had just begun. NONE ‎9780762787876 OTTIMMO INTERNATIONAL Library Management System 796.357 EDS b P00245S 796.357 EDS b P00246S 796.357 EDS b 076278539X.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg.jpg 224 2022-08-05 10:36:55 2026-01-19 15:10:51 machine generated