Traces the life of baseball great Babe Ruth from his experiences at a Baltimore boy's school to his glory days with the Yankees and death from cancer in 1948.
Discusses the changes in professional major league baseball during the 1920s, including the pennant race scandal in 1920, the founding of the Negro Leagues, Babe Ruth's career, the farm system, and more.
A retelling of the day Jackie Mitchell, a seventeen-year-old female professional baseball player, struck out the New York Yankees best hitters, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, in an exhibition game in 1931.
Describes the curse that seemed to haunt the Boston Red Sox after they traded Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees and could not win a World Series--until 2004.
With their ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe and his father have the opportunity to find out whether Babe Ruth really did call his shot when he hit that home run in the third game of the 1932 World Series against the Chicago Cubs.