In this silent film, a small-town boy fights to become a major-league baseball star.

Babe, a consummate failure, has only one goal in life - to be a baseball player. Stymied in his ambition by John Tobin, the owner of the local team, who refuses to allow Babe to play, he signs on with a rival club and defeats his home team with a homer in the ninth inning. Ostracized for his act of treachery, Babe journeys to New York, joins the Yankees and returns a hero. Babe enhances his standing even more when he prevents the team's pitcher, Knight, from embezzling bank funds and wins the banker's daughter Mildred.