The Show Girl and the Shortstop: The Strange Saga of Violet Popovich and Her Shooting of Cub Billy Jurges

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Article

Journal Title

Baseball Research Journal

Publication Date

Fall 2016

Abstract

The 1932 Chicago Cubs baseball season is probably best remembered for Babe Ruth’s gesture during the third game of the Cubs-Yankees World Series. Ruth may or may not have “called his shot,” but with her own shots earlier that summer, a young Chicago woman named Violet Popovich unknowingly set in motion the events that would indirectly lead to one of the most famous moments in baseball history.

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The definitive article appears in the pages of the Baseball Research Journal at: https://sabr.org/baseball-research-journal-archives/.

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This article is openly available online courtesy of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Please visit their website at: https://sabr.org/.

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