As a youngster, Lou's family moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he developed into an all-around athlete engaging in basketball, boxing, track, football and handball, as well as baseball.

As a multi-sport star in High School, Lou suffered a serious knee injury while playing football which almost ended his career, yet he came back from that to become one of the fastest men in professional baseball.

Lou attended Christian Brothers High School, as did future major league baseball players and world series participants Phil Gagliano, Tim McCarver, and current Philadelphia Phillies infielder Logan Forsythe.

In the White House, president Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a button that lit up Crosley Field, where a crowd of 20,422 fans, sizable for a last-place team in the middle of the Great Depression, came out to watch the game.

In the bottom of the first (of the first game) with two outs, Chiozza hit a short fly ball down the left field line that would have ordinarily at best been a double.

The inning ended, but as the other Braves players returned to the dugout, Ruth stood for a minute, then folded his glove and walked off the field into the clubhouse behind the centerfield fence.

But Chiozza recalled in his later life that he had wished Ruth had retired on a high note after hitting the three home runs in Pittsburgh rather than waiting to play the next series in Philadelphia.