Barnstorming Babe: A Slugger's Bumpy Trek Across Small-Town America
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Babe Ruth could be his own worst enemy.
After the 1921 World Series, the Bambino and teammate Bob Meusel began a barnstorming tour in the Northeast. The new baseball commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, had warned them against doing it, citing a ridiculous and seldom-enforced rule. Greed overruled logic, and they did it anyway. Landis responded by suspending both players for the first six weeks of the 1922 season.
A year later, Landis had waived the rule. And after losing the World Series i...























