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New York Times

on “the Babe Ruth roar”

on Babe trade

as bullish on Babe

on goliath of the bludgeon

on mighty strikeouts

on National Commission

on spring training Babe

New York Tribune

on Babe golf

on Babe trade

on baseball troubles

on bigger ballpark needs

on Infant Swatigy

Macbeth of

on Ruppert and Huston

on spring training homers

New York Yankees

1919 opening
vs.
Red Sox

1919 Series award of

1920 attendance record of

1920 income of

1920 spring training of

attendance record against Indians for

Babe bought by

Babe insured for $150,000 by

Babe joining

Babe slump ending

Babe spring training slump for

Babe stolen bases for

Baker retires from

Barrow genius at NYY

as better than Red Sox

Caldwell of

city series of

dynasty of

financial strength of

historic month for

hoodoo jinx of

Huggins manager of

income 1920–21 with

as Insurrecto

Johnson, B., suit of

market inferiority of

Mays traded to

Pezzolo traded to

Polo Grounds used by

priorities of

Red Sox and Babe profiting

Red Sox beating

road trip success of

Ruppert and Huston owners of

Russell pitcher for

Russell traded by

Ruthless Red Sox beating

Ruthless Red Sox losing

world championships of

Yankee Stadium for

nicknames

the Babe or Bambino as

Colossus as

NL.
See
National League

No, No, Nanette

NYY.
See
New York Yankees

O'Leary, J. C.

on 1918 strike

on Babe delivering

as Babe press agent

on base slugging percentage (OPS)

outfielder

Babe as

Babe erratic as

Over the Fence

as film on Babe swing

lawsuit over

Owens, Brick

owners

anti-Semitism of

as against players

Pacific Coast League baseball (PCL)

partyer

PCL.
See
Pacific Coast League baseball

personality, of Babe

adored and approachable in

attention loving

Babe trade due to

as bigger than baseball

brooding and slumping

as crowd-pleaser

as discontent with pitching

as disliking criticism

as distanced from team

as heroic

instinctive

naïveté as

as partyer

pioneering

as selfish

talent and appetites of

as thriving in New York

as womanizer

Pezzolo, Francesco Stephano (“Ping Bodie”)

on Babe trade

as traded to NYY

Philadelphia A's

Babe by Bressler of

Columbia Park home of

in Loyal Five

Mack owning

Philadelphia Phillies

Baker Bowl home of

Cravath record for

physique

pioneering

Pipe Dream League

pitcher

in 1918 Series

achievements

Babe discontent as

injured finger of

lively ball worse for

records

time as

value diminished as

Plant Field, Tampa, FL

players against owners

Polo Grounds

Babe homer off Lewis at

Babe packing

as baseball field

as fitting Babe

positions played

first baseman

outfielder

pitcher

Prohibition

public interest

adored and approachable in

as attendance down

Babe bests baseball in

in Babe breaking AL homer record

Babe exciting

as Babe rejected by Boston fans

“the Babe Ruth roar” of

in Babe unique hitting style

as baseball antidote to war

as Boston fans missing Babe

as boys copying Babe

homer focus of

homers energizing

from New York upper crust

in novel home runs

PCL tour big in

Polo Grounds packed from

in Red Sox flagging

in Ruth unprecedented

strikeout stigma in

in strikeouts

stupefying crowds of

success due to

publicity

on 1918 Series

on 1918 strike

attention loving

on Babe besting Seybold AL record

Babe bests baseball in

as Babe eclipsing everyone

on Babe golf

on Babe hitting

on Babe homer records

on Babe pitching

Babe protected by press in

on Babe selfishness

on Babe trade

as bullish on Babe

as different in New York

on goliath of the bludgeon

as good for sportswriters

The Home Run Kid: or How Pep Pindar Won His Title
(Ruth)

on homer explosion

homers as

on PCL barnstorming

on slumping Red Sox

as trade comments of Babe

Quinn, Bob

racism

records

for attendance

domino effect of

homers of Cravath as

homers of Freeman as

homers of Seybold as

homers of Williamson as

of strikeouts

records, of Babe

60 homers as

in 1918 season

in 1919 season

1920 records in

Cravath record topped as

every homer as

Freeman record topped as

highest WAR as

homer 100 as

homer 103 as

for homers

homers 50–51 as

for pitching

publicity on

Seybold record topped as

of strikeouts

Williamson record topped as

Worden record topped as

Red Sox.
See
Boston Red Sox

Red Sox Independents

Reds.
See
Cincinnati Reds

religion

Reynolds, Howard

Rice, Grantland

Babe totals predicted by

on Babe trade

on homer explosion

Roaring Twenties

Babe king of

in New York City

Robinson, Arthur

on Babe besting Worden

on Babe magnanimity

Royal Rooters

Runyon, Damon

on Babe batting spree

in
New York American

as sportswriter and playwright

on spring training homer

Ruppert, Jacob

$150,000 Ruth offer of

1920 income of

on AL board

on AL review board

AL suit of

Babe and Mays offer of

Babe trade needed by

Black Sox scandal concerning

as connected with Tammany Hall

death of

Fenway mortgage of

financial straits of

financial strength of

financially winning

Frazee close with

as Insurrecto

Johnson, B., trades with

against Johnson, B.

Mays trade battle of

Mays traded to

McGeehan on smarts of

in National Baseball Hall of Fame

as NYY owner

Prohibition influencing

as trading for Mays

Yankee Stadium built by

Russell, Allen

as NYY pitcher

traded to Red Sox

Ruth, Dorothy

Ruth, George Herman, Jr. (“Babe”).
See
specific topics

Ruth, George Herman, Sr.

Ruth, Helen

as mostly alone

as wife of Babe

Ruth, Julia

salary cap limits

scientific baseball

Babe abandoning

Barrow committed to

Doyle contrasts Babe with

homers opposite of

of Ruthless Red Sox

style of

self-centered

Senators.
See
Washington Senators

Series.
See
World Series

Seybold, Socks

Shannon, Paul

Babe trade leaks from

of
Boston Post

on Boston team and Babe trade

shipyard leagues.
See
industrial semipro ball

slugging percentage

slumps

of Babe in spring training

Babe slump ending

for Red Sox

small ball style.
See
scientific baseball

Spanish flu

Speaker, Tris

The Sporting News

on Babe

on Babe trade rumors

on Babe with PCL

on National Commission

on selfish Babe

Vila of

sportswriters

Babe benefiting

protection from

useless stories from

spring training

for 1918 Red Sox

for 1919 Red Sox

for 1920 NYY

Babe slump in

homers during

St. Louis Browns

St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys

statistics

on 1920 strikeouts

on Babe homers

on Babe strikeouts

OPS as

slugging percentage as

WAR as

strike

strikeouts

1920 total of

as mighty

popularity of

record number of

stigma of

Sullivan, Joseph (“Sport”)

Black Sox scandal of

as gambler

Sunday baseball

banning

financial windfall of

as legalized in New York

swing mechanics

Babe learning

experimentation with

syndicate baseball

talent and appetites

Tammany Hall

Tampa, FL

Babe homer in

Plant Field in

Red Sox spring training in

Tampa Tribune

Taylor, Charles H. and John

as
Boston Globe
owners

as Fenway Park owners

Fenway sale talking

Frazee offer rejected by

teammates

Tener, John

theater

Frazee entrepreneur in

money in

My Lady Friends
in

No, No, Nanette
in

as not part of Babe trade

Runyon playwright in

trading Babe

Babe comments on

Babe told about

Barrow advice on

Boston reacts to

Comiskey offering

deal structure of

Fenway mortgage in

Frazee explaining

Frazee path for

Hornsby value guage in

Huggins blessing

issues leading to

market size issues in

New York reacts to

publicity on

Red Sox dynasty and

Ruppert needing

theater issues not part of

timing of

transcendent

Babe hitting as

Mathewson as

United News Service

Vila, Joe,
The Sporting News

Wagner, Robert

Walsh, Christy

as Babe agent

as Babe closest friend

war

1918 Series during

Babe impacted by

baseball antidote to

baseball impacted by

Dead Ball Era impacted by

military draft during

“work or fight” draft order in

WWI ending

WAR (wins above replacement)

for 1919

Babe highest in

as statistic

Washington Senators

crowds for Babe playing

Griffith owning

Johnson, W., of

in Loyal Five

Webb, Mel

on Babe and NYY defeat

on Babe as asset

on Babe Baltimore homer

on Babe pitching

on Babe Tampa homer

White Sox.
See
Chicago White Sox

Whiteman, George

Williamson, Ned

Windom, Lawrence

womanizer

Worden, Perry

“work or fight” draft order

on hold

industrial semipro ball alternative to

in WWI

World Series

of 1913

of 1915

of 1916

of 1917

of 1918

of 1919

of 2004

of NYY

WWI.
See
the Great War

Yankee Stadium

Yankees.
See
New York Yankees

Yawkey, Tom

 

About the Author

GLENN STOUT
is the series editor for
The Best American Sports Writing
and a Casey Award finalist author of such titles as
Red Sox Century, Yankees Century,
and
Fenway
1912
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