In the story there’s a girl that wants to play baseball with the boys won’t let her. The year this story takes place in is 1931 this was the same time as the Great Depression which made many people lose their jobs.I this story was from the past because in the story it said but then one day he’d come home looking like a hangdog.Three people who really lived that where in the story were Babe Ruth,Lou Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri .Two things I learned about Babe Ruth is that he is one of the two all time greats in base ball and, he gets angry  when he strikes out.In the story there’s a boy named Timmy Oglethorpe and he goes to a base ball game and, he makes a bet that he would let the girl play base ball with them if the first ever girl pitcher can strike Babe Ruth out.During the game the boy buys cracker jacks for a nickel. I think that if the story took place today they would think that girls can play base ball.