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(Photo: With his hitting prowess, Babe Ruth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth) ushered in an offensive-oriented era of baseball and helped lead the Yankees to four World Series titles. Irwin, La Broad, & Pudlin. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress) 's Prints and Photographs division (https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/) under the digital ID cph.3g07246 (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g07246) . This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Licensing) for more information. Babe Ruth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth) , full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right, in baseball uniform, holding baseball bat. Facsimile signature on image: "Yours truly "Babe" Ruth." Public Domain (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babe_Ruth2.jpg) File:Babe Ruth2.jpg Created: 23 July 1920, registered as part of a series of 8 photographs of Ruth under J242488–J242491 on the 3 August 1920[1] ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules http://johnbatchelorshow.com/blog Twitter: @BatchelorShow The House That Ruth Built: 2of4: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923 Hardcover https://www.amazon.com/House-That-Ruth-Built-Championship/dp/B007K4GR4M/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923. Before the 27 World Series titles -- before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter -- the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals the New York Giants. In 1921 and 1922, they lost to the Giants when it mattered most: in October.  But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own field, the newly-built, state of the art baseball palace in the Bronx called "the Yankee Stadium." The stadium was a gamble, erected in relative outerborough obscurity, and Babe Ruth was coming off the most disappointing season of his career, a season that saw his struggles on and off the field threaten his standing as a bona fide superstar.  It only took Ruth two at-bats to signal a new era. He stepped up to the plate in the 1923 season opener and cracked a home run to deep right field, the first homer in his park, and a sign of what lay ahead. It was the initial blow in a season that saw the new stadium christened "The House That Ruth Built," signaled the triumph of the power game, and established the Yankees as New York's -- and the sport's -- team to beat.  From that first home run of 1923 to the storybook World Series matchup that pitted the Yankees against their nemesis from across the Harlem River -- one so acrimonious that John McGraw forced his Giants to get to the Bronx in uniform rather than suit up at the Stadium -- Robert Weintraub vividly illuminates the singular year that built a classic stadium, catalyzed a franchise, cemented Ruth's legend, and forever changed the sport of baseball.