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Johnny Smith NPR interviewed Johnny Smith, Julius C. "Bud" Shaw Professor of Sports History in the School of History and Sociology, for a story Jan. 8 on Morning Edition.
Excerpt:
1918 should have been a great year for baseball. A young player named Babe Ruth started the year as a pitcher but began morphing into a home run-hitting powerhouse.
JOHNNY SMITH: And here, what we see is the transformation of Babe Ruth from a dominant pitcher to a slugger just beginning to happen.
ROSALSKY: That's Johnny Smith, a historian at Georgia Tech who recently co-wrote a book that tells this story. It's called War Fever: Boston, Baseball, And America In The Shadow Of The Great War.
