The ep02 The Big Fellow Babe Ruth

This is Jimmy Powers coming your way with another Grantland Rice story. This is Jimmy Powers bringing you the colorful life of the late and great Granny Rice based on his best-selling autobiography, The Tomb of the Shouting,

published by A.S. Barnes & Company. Previously we journeyed with Granny through the early days of his life, his birth in Tennessee in 1880, his boyhood in Nashville, his college days at Vanderbilt and his subsequent breaking in as a sports writer for various papers in Tennessee and Georgia, Two Cleveland, Home again to Nashville, and finally to New York for his first big shot

at fame with the evening mail in 1910. After Teddy Roosevelt and after the First World War, before the Depression and the WPA, there was an era that's come to be known as the Roaring Twenties, and also the Golden Age of Sports.

In those days a few lucky ones, Don Deere phones huddled over their crystal sets, cursed the static and screamed as Toney took the long count, but most avid sports fans had the long wait until the next morning's newspapers hit the street to find out who won and just what had happened.

Even though 135,000 people contributed to the first $2 million gate at the Dempsey Toney fight, another 25 million sport fans had to know what happened blow by blow, and the newspaper writers told them. And even though 74,000 could jam into the house that Ruth built to see Ruth mince his way around the bases, another 25 million could hardly wait for the late edition to learn if

Babe had slammed another one. Today brings Granny face to face with a young and truly great South Paul pitcher for the world champion, Boston Red Sox, George Herman, Babe Ruth. So once again, with a sincere bow to the spirit of Grantlin Rice, I turn the page and in first person, continue for your enjoyment, the tumult and the shouting.