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Originally Posted by Cooptown
Actually, it's funny that you mention that. According to my father, Billy Herman was adamant that Babe Ruth did not call his shot (my Dad was as diehard of a Yankee fan as they come), and instead Ruth was jawing at the Cubs dugout, and pointing yelling obscenities. He was, according to my Dad, adamant that Ruth did not call his own shot.
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Cool story and connection. If memory serves me right, Herman's interviewed on Ken Burns' "Baseball" saying similar. That version seems very plausible to me, and the famous photo looks more to me like he's gesturing toward the dugout than emphatically pointing to CF.
I think it's actually cool
not to know, since everything now has a dozen network camera angles, and potentially thousands of personally shot still and moving footage.. and the Twittersphere
. Mystery/mystique is such a great part of baseball's past and one of the hooks for collecting its artifacts.