It's October - that means it's playoff time

Warning! The following blog post is non-technical. 

It's October and that means it's just about time for the Major League Baseball Playoffs to begin.  This year is particularly exciting for me since the New York Yankees are going into October on fire.  Their first opponent?  The Boston Red Sox!  Great way to start things off.

Flickr posted a bunch of old photo's of playoff past and posted the following photo:

It's such a great photo provided by the Library of Congress.  During a game on July 6, 1924, Babe Ruth collided with the wall as he went for a foul ball.  He was knocked out and was unconscious for five minutes.

There is just so much going on, you need to look at it for a while just to take it all in.  Obviously you have ruth sprawled out on his back with what I assume both team doctors attending to him.  One doctor is got a wet clothe on Ruth's face.  I would assume he got the clothe from the Coke vendor who is kneeling down with them and has his basket of coke sitting on the bullpen's bench.

Now look at the wall he crashed into.  It's solid concrete, no padding what-so-ever.  No wonder he was knocked out.  And look how much room there isn't for foul territory.  He must of been hauling it to try make a play that was apparently borderline fair/foul. 

Now let's look at the crowd.  Apparently, the right field corner was designated for color folks.  I can only see three white guys in the stands.  Plus everyone is dressed in a tie and straw hats.  Just goes to show it was certainly a different time back then.

There is so much that's different culturally for a game that hasn't really changed much since then.  What do you like about this picture?