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"The House That George Built"  
HouseThatRuthBuilt
Author Harry Turtledove
Publisher Tor.com
Reprinted Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural;
Making History: Classic Alternate History Stories
Collected No
Illustrator James Bennett
Genre(s) Alternate History
Publication date June 23, 2009

"The House That George Built" is a short story by Harry Turtledove published on-line at Tor.com in 2009. It has been reprinted in Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural (2014), and Making History: Classic Alternate History Stories (2019), both edited by Rick Wilber.

The story is an alternate history in which the Baltimore Terrapins were not established in Baltimore, and so Baltimore Orioles owner Jack Dunn did not trade Babe Ruth to the Boston Red Sox, and Ruth never achieved the baseball greatness he did in OTL. Buzz Arlett filled Ruth's OTL niche. The story takes place in a bar Ruth owns sometime in February 1941, as Ruth recounts his missed opportunity to H.L. Mencken.

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