Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig 1927 Barnstorming Tour framed liquor art unfenced pastures and trusted his

unfenced pastures and trusted his legs more than the fences

and counted in the third year of a war that had outgrown every prediction

gathering a century's worth of statesmen and generals into a single engraved pantheon

It is an orrery flattened onto paper — Victorian astronomy at its most devotional

the river below them already a Union artery

Babe Ruth Lou Gehrig 1927 Barnstorming Tour framed liquor art unfenced pastures and trusted hisBabe Ruth Lou Gehrig 1927 Barnstorming Tour 423f32 a press photograph from the autumn the Bustin' Babes and Larrupin' Lou's tore across the country, two Yankees fresh off a 110 win season turning cornfield diamonds and minor league parks into temples. The image carries the dust of small town outfields where farm boys watched Ruth and Gehrig in the same frame and never quite recovered. About the Source Bella Frye sources sports artifacts from American