Tom Shieber, senior curator at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, traced back a rare clip of Ruth and Gehrig, unearthed at an exhibit on pre-World War II life at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, to their 1927 barnstorming tour covered in The Big Fella.
This is the game story from the Oct. 25, 1927 edition of the Stockton Record describing the game in the footage posted yesterday by @tshieber of the HOF. pic.twitter.com/m3t23PzO22
— JaneLeavy (@janeleavy1) November 28, 2018