373 with 47 homers, 52 doubles and 18 triples. Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth entertaining fans at Dexter Park in Brooklyn during a barnstorming tour in October of 1928. Babe Ruth hands Al Calistro ...

online newspaper archives and visits to local historical societies to do research for "Barnstorming Babe." He told the Globe Gazette he was intrigued to learn that Ruth had once played in Iowa and ...

More than a century ago, baseball legend Babe Ruth came to Iowa and other Midwestern ... Timothy Grover of Pleasant Hill, author of "Barnstorming Babe: A Slugger's Bumpy Trek Across Small-Town ...