When Babe Ruth came to Iowa
A 1922 barnstorming tour brought popular Ruth to Perry, but he wasn't yet a legend
The Babe Ruth that came to Iowa in the fall of 1922 was not the giant of sport and celebrity that still lingers in popular imagination.
Ruth was the certainly the most famous player in baseball, but he was not the legend against which all the game’s greatest players are compared some 90 years after his last swing.
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