Verstappen stunned in Dutch GP boilover<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nChris Ivy, Heritage\u2019s director of sports, calls the jersey \u201cthe most significant piece of American sports memorabilia ever offered at auction.\u201d He said in a news release that it was clear from the bidding that \u201dastute collectors have no doubt as to what this Ruth jersey is and what it represents.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe legend of Babe Ruth and the myth and mystery surrounding his \u2018called shot\u2019 are united in this one extraordinary artifact,\u201d Ivy said.<\/p>\n
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Ruth's famed, debated and often imitated \u201ccalled shot\u201d came as the Yankees and Chicago Cubs faced off in game three of the World Series at Chicago's Wrigley Field on October 1, 1932. In the fifth inning of the heated game, Ruth made a pointing gesture while at bat and then hit the home run off Cubs pitcher Charlie Root.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is the most dramatic moment in World Series history, and it may be the most dramatic moment ever in all of baseball,\u201d said Michael Gibbons, director emeritus and historian at the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore.<\/p>\n
The Yankees won the game 7-5 and swept the Cubs the next day to win the series.<\/p>\n
That was Ruth's last World Series, and the \u201ccalled shot\u201d was his last home run in a World Series, said Mike Provenzale, the production manager for Heritage\u2019s sports department.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you can tie an item like that to an important figure and their most important moment, that\u2019s what collectors are really looking for,\u201d Provenzale said.<\/p>\n
Heritage said Ruth gave the road jersey to one of his golfing buddies in Florida around 1940 and it remained in that family for decades. Then, in the early 1990s, that man's daughter sold it to a collector. It was then sold at auction in 2005 for USD$940,000 and remained in a private collection until being consigned to Heritage this year.<\/p>\n
There's been debate for decades over whether Ruth really called the shot. But Gibbons said there's home movie footage of the game that shows Ruth pointing, though it's not clear whether he\u2019s pointing at the pitcher, centre field or toward the Cubs bench. Regardless, he said, Ruth, who had a history of making predictions, clearly \u201csaid something\u2019s going to happen on the next pitch and he made it happen.\u201d And, he said, Ruth himself said he'd called the shot.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think certainly that he did call his shot,\u201d Gibbons said.<\/p>\n
News reel footage shows Ruth rounding the bases after the home run and making a pushing out gesture toward the Cubs bench, as if to say \u201cI gotcha", Gibbons said.<\/p>\n
The \u201ccalled shot" was an extraordinary moment from a man Gibbons called \u201cthe standard-bearer for all of Major League Baseball.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was always uplifting, he was something very positive for this country to root for,\u201d Gibbons said. \u201cThen he caps it all off by calling his shot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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