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How reliable is eyewitness testimony? Some 51,000 people were in Wrigley Field on Oct. 1, 1932, to see Game 3 of the 1932 World Series between the Chicago Cubs and New York Yankees. Babe Ruth came to bat in the 5th inning and gestured toward center field. Or did he?
It is called Babe Ruth’s Called Shot. But was he pointing to where he would hit Charlie Root’s next pitch — or just at Charlie Root on the mound?
This debate was revived on our show this week in an interview with Joe Posnanski for his new book, Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments.
The Cubs hurled obscenities at Ruth. He stepped out of the box and pointed.
A 12-year-old named John Paul Stevens, who would grow up to be Supreme Court Justice Stevens, remembered, “Ruth did point to the center-field scoreboard. And he did hit the ball out of the park after he pointed with his bat."
Yet Root always said if Ruth had pointed at center, he would have thrown his next pitch in Ruth’s ear.
Root and Ruth met 10 years later with cameos in the film The Pride of the Yankees.
Historian Donald Honig said Root told his old adversary, "You never pointed out to center field before you hit that ball off me, did you?" He says the Babe replied, "I know I didn't. But it made a hell of a story, didn't it?"
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