THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 5, 1929

* New York Yankees "barnstorming" tour in the Southwest
* Babe Ruth & the Yanks at Waco, Texas for baseball game 
* German engine designer Karl Benz death (1st report)
* Inventor of 1st automobile ? - Mercedes-Benz co-founder

The top of page 20 has a six column heading: "11,000 Acclaim Ruth as Yankees Defeat Waco Team, 13-3" with subheads and box scores. (see images)
Page 25 has a one column heading: "CARL BENZ, 84, DIES; MADE FIRST AUTO" with subheads. First report coverage on the death of German engine designer, Karl Benz. He is generally regarded as the inventor of the very 1st automobile powered by a internal combustion engine.
Complete with all 52 pages, light toning at the margins, a little spine wear, generally in very nice condition.

Background: The mass hysteria and joyful chaos that greeted Babe Ruth in Waco on April 4, 1929, beautifully illustrates how the "Sultan of Swat" transformed baseball from a mere sporting event into a transcendent American cultural phenomenon. During the 1920s, baseball's spring training "barnstorming" tours served as a vital bridge between major league icons and isolated, rural communities across the American South and West, bringing the mythic figures heard about only via crackling radios or read about in newspapers directly to the people. The Waco exhibition proved that Ruth was more than just an incredibly dominant athlete; he was a larger-than-life folk hero whose magnetic charisma completely dissolved the traditional boundaries between players and spectators. By turning a routine exhibition game into a celebratory, civic-wide holiday, the event cemented Ruth's status as the ultimate icon of the Roaring Twenties—a figure whose sheer popularity could bend the rules of the sport itself, proving that the opportunity to touch the hem of the Babe's uniform meant far more to everyday Americans than the outcome on the scoreboard.