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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1343

Headin' Home

192055 minUnited States

Synopsis

A small-town young man develops his baseball talent and heads toward the major leagues, even fashioning his own bat from a tree. Babe Ruth plays this idealized version of himself as the story leads to his New York Yankees career.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 55:21
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Lawrence C. Windom · Public domain

Cast

Babe Ruth

Ruth Taylor

William Sheer

Margaret Seddon

Frances Victory

James A. Marcus

DirectorsLawrence Clement Windom

Historical context

The film invents a reassuring rural upbringing rather than recounting Ruth's actual childhood in Baltimore. Its final baseball scenes include the Polo Grounds, the Yankees' home at the time.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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Availability checked on September 16, 2026.

Photograph credit

Photographs cropped, resized and optimized as WebP, displayed in monochrome.

Babe Ruth — Charles M. Conlon; https://www.ebay.com/itm/BABE-RUTH-1933-YANKEES-CONLON-BASEBALL-POSTER-22-X-28-OFFICIALLY-LICENSED-/223259724073 · Public domain
Ruth Taylor — Alfred Cheney Johnston; http://historicalzg.piwigo.com/picture?/24385/search/16441 · Public domain
William Sheer — Gift of David Shepard; http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?criteria=O%3ADE%3AI%3A8%7CG%3AHI%3AE%3A1&page_number=58&template_id=1&sort_order=1 · Public domain
Margaret Seddon — unknown (20th Century Fox); eBay · Public domain
James A. Marcus — Archive.org; https://archive.org/details/TheTrailBeyond · Public domain

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