Title was taken from the nickname for baseball legend Babe Ruth.
The Superman #11 comic book Corky is reading (July/August 1941) would have been worth upwards of $2300 for Very Fine condition in 2016.
Opening scene, Jake is reading a book, "Murder on the Footbridge". Evidently that fake book title was used in the 1947 movie "Out of the Past" and in an Alfred Hitchcock movie.