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(Photo: Public Domain: A Young George H.W. Bush with Babe Ruth by Unknown, 1948 (NARA) This image is believed to be in the public domain and is from the National Archives. More information may be found below.   Search or Contact the National Archives (http://www.archives.gov/research/arc/index.html) .  _______________________   All images from the National Archives posted on this site should be "unrestricted", according to NARA's information provided below. PLEASE DO NOT ATTRIBUTE IMAGE TO PINGNEWS. You may say "via" pingnews or found through pingnews. You may also thank the "pingnews photo service." Here, we are serving as A FREE PHOTO SERVICE and NOT THE ORIGINATOR/CREATOR of these images NOR the archival location. Any credit should attribute photographer (if known) and the National Archives. ________________________   Public Domain. Suggested credit: National Archives via pingnews. Additional information from source:   ARC Identifier: 186375  Title: George Bush, captain of the Yale baseball team, receives Babe Ruth's manuscript of his autobiography which he was donating to Yale, 1948  ) http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules http://johnbatchelorshow.com/blog Twitter: @BatchelorShow The House That Ruth Built: 4of4: 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.