At the Old Ball Yard

He advanced to home plate hesitant out of time, out of place, yet tantalizingly familiar somehow A spirit, no number on his back... Pausing, he tipped his cap to the crowd a period-piece from long, long ago Who could he be... He squared himself, bat waving menacingly and then he swung -- pure poetry a swing for the ages the ball arcing higher, higher... As he rounded first base into the afternoon shadows his legs faded away then the rest of him... Who's to say we hadn't seen Babe Ruth that day Who's to say Babe Ruth, who played from 1914 - 1935, rewrote baseball's record book top to bottom during his career. He still is arguably both the greatest player ever to play the game, as well as the sport's most enduring legend.