"Take Me Out to the Past"

Chapter 8

Seven and a half innings had gone by in the game with Ruth yet to homer. All the while, Doc and Marty looked at the Xerox copies that they brought with them from the future as well as the day’s newspaper. So far there was no change. Marty began to blame himself for drinking that potion that Doc had concocted. What if they never restore the timeline to it’s origial shape. What if they’re stuck on that altered timeline forever.

Then, in the bottom of the eighth inning, with left hander Bob Zachary on the mound for the Washington Senators, and a runner on base for the Yankees, Babe Ruth came to the plate. With Ruth swinging the bat, Zachary went to the stretch and threw. Ruth swung and connected. It was a fly ball to right. Back, back, back went the right fielder until he ran out of room. The right fielder looked up. It was gone! Ruth did it! It was number 60! With the crowd going wild, Doc and Marty looked at the copies of the stats and the 1927 newspaper article. Where it once read BABE RUTH DISAPPEARS now read

RUTH HITS 60

Where it read “Vaunted Yankee slugger vanishes without a trace.” now read “Vaunted Yankee slugger breaks own season record.” The two time travellers looked at the copie of the stats. It now read:

George Herman "Babe" Ruth
Born February 6, 1895. Died August 16, 1948

Batting

Year	Team	G	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BA
1914	Boston-A	5	10	1	2	1	0	0	0	0.2
1915	Boston-A	42	92	16	29	10	1	4	21	0.315
1916	Boston-A	67	136	18	37	5	3	3	16	0.272
1917	Boston-A	52	123	14	40	6	3	2	12	0.325
1918	Boston-A	95	317	50	95	26	11	11	66	0.3
1919	Boston-A	130	432	103	139	34	12	29	114	0.322
1920	New York-A	142	458	158	172	36	9	54	137	0.376
1921	New York-A	152	540	177	204	44	16	59	171	0.378
1922	New York-A	110	406	94	128	24	8	35	99	0.315
1923	New York-A	152	522	151	205	45	13	41	131	0.393
1924	New York-A	153	529	143	200	39	7	46	121	0.378
1925	New York-A	98	359	61	104	12	2	25	66	0.29
1926	New York-A	152	495	139	184	30	5	47	145	0.372
1927	New York-A	151	540	158	192	29	8	60	164	0.356
1928	New York-A	154	536	163	173	29	8	54	142	0.323
1929	New York-A	135	499	121	172	26	6	46	154	0.345
1930	New York-A	145	518	150	186	28	9	49	153	0.359
1931	New York-A	145	534	149	199	31	3	46	163	0.373
1932	New York-A	133	457	120	156	13	5	41	137	0.341
1933	New York-A	137	459	97	138	21	3	34	103	0.301
1934	New York-A	125	365	78	105	17	4	22	84	0.288
1935	Boston-N	28	72	13	13	0	0	6	12	0.181
Totals		2503	8399	2174	2873	506	136	714	2211	0.342

Pitching

Year	Team	G	IP	CG	H	SO	BB	W	L	ERA
1914	Boston-A	4	23	1	21	3	7	2	1	3.91
1915	Boston-A	32	218	16	166	112	85	18	8	2.44
1916	Boston-A	44	324	23	230	170	118	23	12	1.75
1917	Boston-A	41	326	35	244	128	108	24	13	2.01
1918	Boston-A	20	166	18	125	40	49	13	7	2.22
1919	Boston-A	17	133	12	148	30	58	9	5	2.97
1920	New York-A	1	4	0	3	0	2	1	0	4.5
1921	New York-A	2	9	0	14	2	9	2	0	9
1930	New York-A	1	9	1	11	3	2	1	0	3
1933	New York-A	1	9	1	12	0	3	1	0	5
Totals		163	1221	107	974	488	441	94	46	2.28

Looking at the sports section from 1987 it showed that the Pacific Coast League was gone. It only had National and American League with major league teams in the cities that had them before Doc and Marty went back in time. “It worked.” exclaimed Doc, “Ruth’s 60th home run of the year has set off a ripple effect in time. The future of Major League baseball has been restored.” “That’s great.” said Marty, “Let’s get our asses back to the future.” “My sentiments exactly.” said Doc. “Hey Doc.” said Marty, “What about your shift here?” “It’s over.” said Doc, “After it finished, I took the time machine back to the moment that you dropped off Ruth.” Marty paused. Then, he got it. Afterwords, they left the stadium, found the DeLorean that was still invisible, got in, set the time circuits for August 7, 1987 and the destination for San Francisco. Afterwords, the car lifted off and accelerated up to 88 miles per hour and through the time barrier.

Chapter 8

End of Chapter 8

prev contents next