Headin' Home is a 1920 American silent biopic sports film directed by Lawrence C.

[1][2][3][4] It attempts to create a mythology surrounding the life of baseball player Babe Ruth.

The screenplay was written by Arthur "Bugs" Baer from a story by Earle Browne.

In the film, Ruth comes from a small country town and has a loving home life, but in real life, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent most of his childhood in a reformatory.

[5] In the film, shades of the 1984 baseball movie The Natural, Ruth cuts down a tree to make his own bat.