Even though theres war raging on several fronts and an election coming up, like many American males, Ive spent the past few weeks thinking mostly about the Major League Baseball playoffs. The draw of our national pastime was seemingly the same in 1921, when, despite World War I finally coming to an end and the first successful BCG vaccinations against tuberculosis, the question on everyones lips was: How the heck can Babe Ruth hit so many home runs?