In a familiar photograph taken at Cooperstown on June 12, 1939, the day the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum was dedicated there, 10 of the 11 living Hall members are awkwardly posed.
Your eyes are drawn immediately to a vibrant force at the image's center. There, Babe Ruth appears to have tapped into an energy source his uptight and anemic companions never located.
His socks are rolled down jauntily to the ankles. He alone is not wearing a tie. And on that big wide face is an impish grin, one that suggests some mischief is afoot.