Big Boy

The end of the major league baseball season is here, and start of the 2018 World Series. I'm pretty excited! Who do you think will win the Series this year?

Everyone I've spoken to seems to think the Houston Astros have got it in the bag, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest the Boston Red Sox as 2018's champion. Or maybe the New York Yankees... Or maybe my mind has been clouded from listening to a show on RUSC this week called Big Boy, which was about Babe Ruth, the greatest sporting hero of his day!

The story begins when George Herman Ruth was a young boy, running amok in his home town, before he was sent to St Mary's Industrial School for Boys, an orphanage and reformatory. It's there his life was turned around, until he signed for his first baseball team in 1914. The show is a really interesting biography into the life of 'The Sultan of Swat'. 

Nearly one hundred years since he hit his prime, it is difficult to comprehend just what a legend The Babe was. 

There is a whole series of short fictional tales of the life of the great baseball player on RUSC. They border on being modern day fables, each one with a simple yet important message to put across to the audience, and despite the simple plots and sugar-sweet story lines they are still most enjoyable to listen to and the sound quality is (on the whole) excellent considering their age.

There's also a whole heap of radio shows starring the big man himself. You can add these to your playlist by doing a search on RUSC (my favorite feature - as you probably know!)  

There's a few more baseball stories I added to RUSC recently too, from the series Favorite Stories of Grantland Rice. Grantland Rice is considered to be one of the best known sports writers of the day, with his expressive writing helping to raise sports players to near demigod status, and he and his writing are among the reasons that the 1920s in the United States is sometimes referred to as the Golden Age of Sports. I'd really recommend you check out the series if you're a sports fan!

Happy listening my friends,