SI Insider: Tom Verducci's "Love, Loss, and Baseball: Letters from the Hub"

Verducci tells the story of the worst pandemic of all time as it swept through Boston during Babe Ruth's time with the Red Sox.

SI's Senior Writer Tom Verducci tells the story of baseball, Babe Ruth, and a pandemic in 1918.

In his 13-part story called "Love, Loss, and Baseball: Letters from the Hub", Verducci tells the story about the worst pandemic of all time as it swept through Boston during Babe Ruth's peak as the world neared the end of World War I through the perspective of a Boston Globe sports writer.

Read all parts of the story here:

• Love, Loss and Baseball: Introducing Tom Verducci's Letters From 1918

• Love, Loss and Baseball: Letters From the Hub, Chapters I - V

• Love, Loss and Baseball: Letters From the Hub, Chapters VI - IX

• Love, Loss and Baseball: Letters From the Hub, Chapters X - XIII