Babe Comes Home

Babe Comes Home 1927 is a silent film produced and distributed through First National and directed by Ted Wilde. The film is a baseball styled sports movie centering on Babe Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson.

Babe Dugan, star player of the Angel baseball team, chews tobacco and gets his uniform dirtier than any other player. Vernie, the laundress who cleans his uniform every week, becomes concerned over his untidiness Babe calls to apologize for unintentionally striking her with a ball during a game and his pal, Peewee, falls in love with Vernies friend, Georgia. On an outing to an amusement park, a roller coaster throws Vernie into Babes arms soon they are engaged, and Vernie plans to reform him. Scores of tobacco cubes and spittoons are prewedding gifts, and they precipitate a lovers quarrel. But Babe takes the reform idea seriously, though his game slumps and he is put on the bench. At a crucial moment, Vernie relents and throws him a plug of tobacco and consequently he delivers a fourbase blow.

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