"Kid, that’s a ball I’ve waited a long time for. One I really want. Here’s $20 for it." Lenny Bielski was sitting with a pack of other kids on the sidewalk outside Navin Field’s right-field fence. When the ball flew out of the stadium and bounced, Bielski was the one that came up with it. "The ball rolled under a car. I dove under the car and grabbed it. Then a lot of policemen and ushers all grabbed me. They put me on their shoulders and stopped the game and took me into the ballpark and put me in the dugout with Babe Ruth, Joe McCarthy the manager and Lou Gehrig." Police were dispatched to find the ball and Bielski was escorted into the Stadium to meet the Babe, Lou Gehrig and the rest of the Yankee squad, as well as watch the rest of the game from the Yankee dugout. After the game Babe said: "I’m gonna give him $120." He didn’t have his wallet, though, so he told Lou Gehrig: "I’ll give that boy a $20 bill." Lou Gehrig took Bielski aside later and said: "If you’d been a little older, you’d have got thousands of dollars for it." Lenny happily passed the ball along to his idol for $20, and received a signed ball from Babe acknowledging the gift of that special 700th home run ball. Lenny Bielski still had the $20 bill when he died in 1977. Navin Field, 1934.

"Joe" said Marilyn Monroe, just back from Korea. "You never heard such cheering." "Yes I have." Joe DiMaggio answered.