Babe Ruth, Dunsmuir, and the Redemption of Baseball

In 1924, Major league baseball was still reeling from scandalous , insider corruption for the World Series. Two members of the New York Yankees, babe Ruth and Bob Muesle—convinced a skittish baseball commissioner to let them tour the west coast by train, playing exhibition games with local teams.

The comparatively anonymous mountain town of Dunsmuir California would become the flashpoint for a sea-change in the public temperature—with disproportionally large media coverage.

Two home runs, two broken bats, and a long-term relationship would be forged between a notched-in mining town—and the Great bambino.

Come find out—at box number seven