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Play Ball with Babe Ruth (1920)

Genre : Documentary

Runtime : 0M

Director : Benjamin Stoloff

Synopsis

A serial of short instructional films using footage of Babe Ruth to explain the fundamentals of playing baseball.

Actors

Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth
Himself (archival footage)

Crews

Benjamin Stoloff
Benjamin Stoloff
Director
Lou Breslow
Lou Breslow
Story
Christy Walsh
Christy Walsh
Producer

Posters and backgrounds

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