Babe Ruth Makes Game Winning Catch
First All Star Game, 1933
47,000 fans paid $1.65 to welcome the first All Star Game at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The rosters were filled with future Hall of Fame players including Ruth, Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Carl Hubbell, Lefty Grove, Al Simmons, Frankie Frisch, Chuck Klein and Paul Waner. John McGraw, who had retired the year before due to illness, was chosen as manager for the NL and for the AL, the Athletics manager Connie Mack. The American League won the game 4-2 behind the pitching of Lefty Grove and Lefty Gomez. The hero, of course, turned out to be Babe Ruth who clobbered a third inning 2 run homer to give the AL the lead and then made a spectacular over the right field fence catch in the eighth inning to stop the NL from tying the game. The game was originally to be a one time event held in Chicago during the World’s Fair. Its popularity promoted it to be an annual event. It would be the last hurrah for McGraw who died four months later of cancer.
When We visited the Baseball HOF in Cooperstown, each Player had his own Plaque on the wall. Babe Ruth had his own Room ! That kind of settled who Cooperstown thinks is the Best player of Alltime !