| To get away from personnel moves (and the Red Sox) for a moment, we go back to Babe Ruth. Although he looks fleet of foot in choppy old newsreels, Ruth was only successful on 50 percent of his stolen base attempts for his career. That makes it all the stranger that, trailing by one run in the bottom of the ninth of Game 7 of the 1926 World Series, Ruth took off for second base. Ruth said he thought no one would expect him to steal, but the Cardinals seemed ready enough. To this day, the 1926 World Series is the only Fall Classic to end with a runner caught stealing. |
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