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The Called Shot - Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (Paperback)
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The Called Shot - Babe Ruth, the Chicago Cubs, and the Unforgettable Major League Baseball Season of 1932 (Paperback)
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Named Best Baseball Book of 2020 by Sports Collectors Digest 2021
SABR 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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