There is a pic of Babe............in Griffith stadium.............which used to be very close to where i am now......................on 7th st.........nw, Wash Dc.................where Howard U. hospital is now..............i don't know of any other Griffith stadiums in the 1920s................

he Yankees had high expectations when they met the New York Giants in the 1921 World Series, and the Yankees won the first two games with Ruth in the lineup. However, Ruth badly scraped his elbow during Game 2, sliding into third base (he had walked and stolen both second and third bases). After the game, he was told by the team physician not to play the rest of the series.^[96] Despite this advice, he did play in the next three games, and pinch-hit in Game Eight of the best-of-nine series, but the Yankees lost, five games to three. Ruth hit .316, drove in five runs and hit his first World Series home run.^[56][97][98]

Babe Ruth in the stands on Opening Day, April 12, 1922, at Griffith Stadium

After the Series, Ruth and teammates Bob Meusel and Bill Piercy participated in a barnstorming tour in the Northeast.^[99] A rule then in force prohibited World Series participants from playing in exhibition games during the offseason, the purpose being to prevent Series participants from replicating the Series and undermining its value.Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended the trio until May 20, 1922, and fined them their 1921 World Series checks.^[100] In August 1922, the rule was changed to allow limited barnstorming for World Series participants, with Landis's permission required.^[101]

On March 6, 1922, Ruth signed a new contract, for three years at $52,000 a year. The largest sum ever paid a