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