When Babe Ruth pointed toward the center field bleachers of Wrigley Field in the 1932 field,before sending the ball to the same place, some naïve people thought a legend was born. Turns out it was just another chapter in the story of creeping socialism.
Did tax payers buy him his bat?
You impugn the memory of the Babe by implying he would not have played but for government subsidies (which did not exist in those days BTW).