I'll add #100, which is pretty well known by now: he hit his first professional home run at Hanlan's Point in Toronto, Sept. 5, 1914.
http://www.canadacool.com/Images%202007/BabeRuthPlaque.jpg
― clemenza, Friday, 12 July 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
I once had a Waite Hoyt spoken word LP where he told this story about how the president (can't remember if it was Coolidge or Hoover) came to the park one day and they had a special thing on the field. Ruth was supposed to say some prepared remarks but when it came time, he forgot. Instead, he said something like, "Hey prez, sure is hot today isn't it?"
― timellison, Monday, 15 July 2013 01:04 (ten years ago) link
the usual rendering is "Hot as hell, ain't it, Prez?"
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 July 2013 01:20 (ten years ago) link
Ruth had so many great quotes--funny ones, and some that were very sentimental. Robert Creamer's biography highly recommended.
http://www.baberuth.com/quotes/
I bought that Hoyt album a year or two ago, and posted the cover on another thread.
― clemenza, Monday, 15 July 2013 01:34 (ten years ago) link
119th birthday (and so his longtime trailer in HR%, Ralph Kiner, passes). Ned to see the grave someday:
http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article/mlb/babe-ruths-gravesite-remains-destination-for-faithful-fans?ymd=20140206&content_id=67494458&vkey=news_mlb
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
i mean need to, tho Ned could see it too I guess.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 6 February 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
http://ghostsofdc.org/2012/04/20/babe-ruth-runs-into-wall-knocked-unconscious/
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 20 February 2014 18:54 (ten years ago) link
New research confirms earliest known moving images of Ruth in Yankee uniform
http://baseballhall.org/news/museum-news/babe%27s-film
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 13 June 2014 12:32 (nine years ago) link
Last Friday, July 11, was the 100th anniversary of Babe Ruth's major league debut. Picked off Shoeless Joe in the first inning.
http://bostonherald.com/sports/columnists/steve_buckley/2014/07/buckley_100_years_ago_today_a_star_is_born
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 July 2014 17:59 (nine years ago) link
hit his first professional (and only minor league) home run 100 years ago today in toronto
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 September 2014 21:07 (nine years ago) link
121 today. On Thursday, I showed my class the AL league stats for 1920.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/AL/1920.shtml
I was emphatically trying to focus their attention on the fact that Ruth out-homered every other team in the league, but the magnitude of that seemed to escape them.
― clemenza, Saturday, 6 February 2016 17:22 (eight years ago) link
Anyone read Jane Leavy's bio?
https://sabr.org/latest/jane-leavys-big-fella-babe-ruth-wins-2019-sabr-seymour-medal
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 15:22 (four years ago) link
Almost died during the 1918 epidemic, apparently--not because of the flu, which he did contract, but rather a quack treatment.
https://www.insidehook.com/article/sports/influenza-pandemic-that-nearly-killed-babe-ruth
― clemenza, Saturday, 20 February 2021 18:07 (three years ago) link
Jimmy Breslin, writing about Babe Ruth: pic.twitter.com/EdBYWdGBJV— Todd Radom (@ToddRadom) September 7, 2021
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 September 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
I've been intermittently struggling with The Sound and the Fury for months. I finish other books, pick it up for a couple of weeks, put it down for a few more, resume again. I tried in university 40 years ago, gave up in the middle of the first section. I feel like it's something I have to do.
Never knew Ruth turns up (third section, the least obscure):
"Well," Mac says, "I reckon you've got your money on the Yankees this year.""What for?" I says."The Pennant," he says. "Not anything in the League can beat them.""Like hell there's not," I says. "They're shot," I says. "You think a team can be that lucky for ever?""I don't call it luck," Mac says."I wouldn't bet on any team that fellow Ruth played on," I says. "Even if I knew it was going to win.""Yes?" Mac says."I can name you a dozen men in either League who're more valuable than he is," I says."What have you got against Ruth?" Mac says."Nothing," I says. "I haven't got any thing against him. I don't even like to look at his picture."
In view of the speaker, an unmistakable and ugly subtext there.
― clemenza, Saturday, 1 July 2023 16:06 (nine months ago) link