Babe Ruth and the Birth of the Yankees Dynasty (Zoom)

When the New York Yankees bought out Ruth’s contract from the Boston Red Sox in 1919, they made the shrewdest deal in baseball history. Throughout his fifteen years with the team, Ruth solidified his legacy as one of the greatest players of all time; setting the long-standing homerun record and helping the Yankees win seven American League pennants and four World Series championships. Learn more about the New York Yankees of the 1920s, particularly their star player, Babe Ruth, as award-winning sports journalist and author Hal Bock describes the tremendous impact the team had on rehabilitating American baseball.