Headin' Home (1920)

Directors

Lawrence Clement Windom

Cast

Babe Ruth, Frances Victory, James A. Marcus, Margaret Seddon, Ralf Harolde, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer

The story

Ruth stars in the film, playing himself, but the details of his life are completely fictionalized. In the film, Ruth comes from a small country town and has a loving home life, but in real life, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent most of his childhood in a reformatory. In the film, shades of the 1984 baseball movie The Natural, Ruth cuts down a tree to make his own bat.

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