1911 World Series on the West Coast). With the sixth and final game being played on October 26, this was also the latest-ending World Series by calendar date until the 1981 Series. With a perfect top of the first, Christy Mathewson set the record with 28 straight shutout innings in World Series play, a record that would be broken by Boston Red Sox Babe Ruth with 29 2/3 innings in the 1918 World Series. Mathewson's postseason record for consecutive scoreless innings against one team would not be broken until 2013 when the Detroit Tigers' Justin Verlander shut out the Athletics (now playing in
The Babe Ruth Story Times" stated that the film "stands as possibly the worst movie ever made." The film has been called one of the worst sports films ever by "Newsday" and "The A.V. Club", and called one of the worst biopics by Moviefone and Spike. Michael Sauter included it in his book "The Worst Movies of All Time", and Leonard Maltin called it "perfectly dreadful." The Babe Ruth Story The Babe Ruth Story is a 1948 baseball film biography of Babe Ruth, the famed New York Yankees slugger. It stars William Bendix (New York Yankee batboy in the 1920s) as the ballplayer and