One of my collecting businesses is all eBay, all of the time. One day, my partner listed for sale a newspaper from October of 1932 that reported on the famous incident in which Babe Ruth supposedly (I am a lifelong New Yorker so to me this story is indisputable) pointed to the bleachers in a World Series game against Chicago and then proceeded to hit a home run to that vicinity.

Well, we got a somewhat agitated email response to our listing from one Ms. Root a grand-daughter of Charlie Root, who was the Chicago pitcher in that immortal game. She told us that her grandpa had always maintained that the story was fabrication and that, furthermore, if the Bambino had been so bold as to point an intended home run before the pitch, he (Root) would have thrown the ball right at Ruth and knocked him on his ass!