Sheet music:Babe Ruth! Babe Ruth! We Know What He Can Do

Like the hit single from the latest pop star, sheet music of yesteryear was an ephemeral phenomenon. Written in 1928 to commemorate the Yankees' victory in the World Series, this song celebrates "Babe" Ruth, the greatest player in baseball history, at the height of his career. After setting the Major League record with 60 home runs in a single season in 1927, George Herman Ruth, Jr., led the Yankees to victory in the 1928 World Series with a record-setting three home runs in the series for the second time. More than just a great ball player, Babe Ruth became a larger-than-life celebrity, famous for his excesses both on and off the field - and that was crucial to the publishers of sheet music. By highlighting this sheet music with a drawing of Babe Ruth watching a home run sail over the ballpark fence, music publisher and songwriter J. W. Spencer banked on Ruth's celebrity to sell his song. He even tried to get a little more mileage out of the song by pasting over any mention of the New York Yankees and replacing it with references to the Boston Braves after Ruth switched teams in 1935, the last year of his professional career.