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The Called Shot - Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (Hardcover)
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The Called Shot - Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (Hardcover)
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Best Baseball Book of 2020 from Sports Collectors Digest 2021
Seymour Medal Finalist In the summer of 1932, at the beginning of
the turbulent decade that would remake America, baseball fans were
treated to one of the most thrilling seasons in the history of the
sport. As the nation drifted deeper into the Great Depression and
reeled from social unrest, baseball was a diversion for a troubled
country-and yet the world of baseball was marked by the same
edginess that pervaded the national scene. On-the-field fights were
as common as double plays. Amid the National League pennant race,
Cubs' shortstop Billy Jurges was shot by showgirl Violet Popovich
in a Chicago hotel room. When the regular season ended, the Cubs
and Yankees clashed in what would be Babe Ruth's last appearance in
the fall classic. After the Cubs lost the first two games in New
York, the series resumed in Chicago at Wrigley Field, with
Democratic presidential candidate Franklin Roosevelt cheering for
the visiting Yankees from the box seats behind the Yankees' dugout.
In the top of the fifth inning the game took a historic turn. As
Ruth was jeered mercilessly by Cubs players and fans, he gestured
toward the outfield and then blasted a long home run. After Ruth
circled the bases, Roosevelt exclaimed, "Unbelievable!" Ruth's
homer set off one of baseball's longest-running and most intense
debates: did Ruth, in fact, call his famous home run? Rich with
historical context and detail, The Called Shot dramatizes the
excitement of a baseball season during one of America's most
chaotic summers.
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