Babe Ruth went by many names: the Sultan of Swat, the King of Swing, the King of Crash, the Big Fellow, the Caliph of Clout, the…
It wasn't that long ago that baseball players in France looked at the months of July and August and sighed. They saw only a desert — weeks of no baseball to play during the best baseball months of the year. "Those are vacation months," French old-timers declared, "Everybody goes away."