of Baseball's Most Celebrated Moment
A legend was born when New York Yankee
Babe Ruth faced Chicago Cubs pitcher Charlie Root at Wrigley Field on October
1, 1932, in the fifth inning of the third game of the World Series.
Ruth is said to have successfully predicted - in words and gestures to the outfield - that on the next pitch he would hit a home run. Newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts of the day differ radically and no photographic proof has ever surfaced in the intervening 75 years. Yet the legend of Ruth's "Called Shot" has been widely known and hotly debated across five generations. Root dismissed the legend to his death. Ruth, over his lifetime, offered several different accounts of his own fantastic feat - each one a little more dramatic than the last. |
Matt Kandle, Sr. Chicago printer, inventor, artist and amateur filmmaker |
For years, nobody thought there
was any photographic evidence of the Called Shot. But there was. Matt Miller
Kandle, Sr., a Chicago printer, inventor, artist and amateur filmmaker
took a Kodak 16mm camera to Wrigley Field on Oct. 1, 1932 and captured
the legendary Called Shot, as well as Ruth's first inning homer, on safety
film.
Matt's home movies were never shown publicly and only rarely projected at family gatherings. Matt Kandle's great-grandson, Kirk M. Kandle of Louisville, Kentucky, never doubted the fact of Babe Ruth's Called Shot until a 1975 newspaper article alerted him to the longstanding debate by declaring there was "more myth than fact to the legend." Kandle's rare footage was televised for the first time on the Fox Television news magazine program "Front Page," on February 4, 1994. |
The Called Shot Bookshelf
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Easy Online Purchasing! In association with Amazon.com, you can buy several books containing images from Matt Kandle's original 16mm home movie footage . (Some may be out of print.) |
Must
Have! And The Crowd Goes Wild by Joe Garner And The Crowd Goes Wild recounts 47 of the most memorable moments in sports and spotlights the photographs that tell the stories. Accompanying the book, two digitally mastered CDs contain over two hours of audio, including the actual calls of the announcers who were just as excited, surprised and awestruck as the fans. Babe Ruth's Called Shot is the first great moment in the book. On page three you will find still shots from Matt Kandle's home movie. On the first CD, listen carefully as announcer Tom Manning shouts "The ball is going, going, high into the center field stands ... and it's a home run!" Order Yours Now from Amazon.com |
Easy Online Purchasing! In association with Amazon.com, you can buy several books containing images from Matt Kandle's original 16mm home movie footage . (Some may be out of print.) |
Wrigleyville,
by Peter Golenbock Wrigleyville -- It's a Magical History Tour of the Chicago Cubs. Worth the cover price just to read Golenbock's attempt to put down the most legendary homer in the game's history by draging out all the old Cubs who claim to have been within 500 miles of Wrigley on Oct. 1, 1932. In batting practice on that fateful day, Ruth and Gehrig sailed a bushel of balls into the stands and Ruth said "I'd play for half my salary if I could play in this dump!" Evidently the Cubs never got over it. Not a proud moment for the Cubbies. You'll find the Called Shot buried on page 234. Order Yours Now from Amazon.com |
Easy Online Purchasing! In association with Amazon.com, you can buy several books containing images from Matt Kandle's original 16mm home movie footage . |
Baseball
Letters by Seth Swirsky
This is a unique scrapbook containing many of baseball's greatest moments--in the words of the players who lived them. For every fan who's ever wondered how Mickey Mantle came to wear the number seven or who Cal Ripken, Jr.'s childhood idols were, Seth Swirsky has the answers. 90 photos including a glimpse of "The Called Shot." Order
Yours Now from Amazon.com
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top baseball Web sites... Including this one! (See page 78). This is a must-have reference for wired baseball fans. "The Called Shot" Web page is proud to be selected among the 500 Web sites in Baseball On The Web by Rob Edelman. It's a great resource for anyone interested in baseball. Order
Your Copy Online from Amazon.com.
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Rob Edelman is the author of the acclaimed Great Baseball Films (Citadel Press, 1994), a member of SABR (the Society for American Baseball Research), and a well-known baseball journalist and lecturer whose work has appeared in Total Baseball, The Total Baseball Catalog, and dozens of anthologies, newspapers, and magazines. |
Grab Some Crackerjacks and Check Out Baseball's Greatest Hits. (SORRY, OUT OF PRINT!) It's the next best thing to being there. Watch historic video clips, like Hank Aaron's 715th home run. Listen in as seventy five Hall of Famers including Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, and Jackie Robinson talk baseball. The only way to see the amazing home movie film clip of Ruth's Called Shot is on Voyager's CD Rom Baseball's Greatest Hits. |
This updated version brings you right up to Joe Carter's heart-stopping
home run that clinched the 1993 World Series for the Toronto Blue Jays.
Current stats on major players are here, along with over six hours of archival
audio, color photographs, and rediscovered audio clips such as Babe Ruth's
legendary call of his own shot in 1932.
--The Wall Street Journal "More than just a collection of statistics, this imaginative
CD-ROM brings baseball history
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