1920s Spring Training Newsreel

Newsreel courtesy UniWatch.

Includes John McGraw batting (antique fungo?).

Includes, at very end, 1928 World Series Footage of brand new "House that Ruth Built". Look closely at the outfield configuration, with it's luscious lack of symmetry and it's quirky multiple warning tracks extending into play like pathways. Outfield dimensions courtesy Baseball Almanac:

Left Field Short.......301
Left Field Deep.......402
Left Center Field.....457
Center Field............461
Right Center Field...407
Right Field Deep.....367
Right Field Short....295











Gratuitous Ernie Banks photo, in Scottsdale (late 1960s?). Banks' swing was effortless, perfectly balanced, and generated power.

Ernie Banks grew up in Dallas, TX.