On June 26, 1920, the New York City Commerce High School baseball team traveled to Chicago to face Lane Tech High School for an inter-city championship game. The game was reported nationally as Commerce defeated Lane Tech 12-6.
It was a close game until the ninth inning when a young lad known as “the Babe Ruth of high schools” slammed a ball over the right-field screen at Wrigley Field by many feet. It landed on Sheffield Avenue and bounced onto a front porch across the street.
