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Tag Archives: Babe Ruth
Lou Gehrig Plays Sandlot Baseball 1927
The Iron Horse Takes Some Time To Play With The Boys After the New York Yankees swept the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 1927 World Series, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig went on a barnstorming tour across the country. This news … Continue reading
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Tagged 1927, Babe Ruth, Los Angeles, Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees
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Babe Ruth, Dewayne Wise And Mistakes Umpires Make
Umpires Make Mistakes: See Baseball History 101 Everyone is in an unnecessary uproar over the Dewayne Wise phantom catch of a baseball that disappeared into the crowd at Yankee Stadium on June 26, 2012 during a 6-4 Yankee victory over … Continue reading
Babe Ruth’s 1920 Uniform Sells For $4.4 Million At Auction
Babe Ruth, King Of The Sports Memorabilia World Nearly sixty-four years after his death, Babe Ruth set another record on Sunday May 20, 2012 . His circa 1920 Yankees road jersey sold at SCP auctions for a staggering $4.4 million. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1920, Attendance, Auction, Babe Ruth, MLB, New York Times, New York Yankees
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Classic Hollywood #10
Babe Ruth Shows Gary Cooper The Finer Points of Gripping A Baseball Bat In the 1942 film The Pride of The Yankees which tells the life story of Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth took his role of playing himself very seriously. … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Classic Hollywood, Movies
Tagged Babe Ruth, Entertainment, Gary Cooper, Lou Gehrig, New York Yankees, The Pride of the Yankees
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You Can’t Go Out Unrecognized, Can You?
Babe Ruth Signing Autographs The Yankees won’t be in the World Series this year. The Detroit Tigers beat the Yankees three games to two in the American League Divisional Series last night. So we won’t be hearing God Bless America … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Music, Photography
Tagged Babe Ruth, God Bless America, Kate Smith, Polo Grounds, Yankee Stadium
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Babe Ruth Catches A Baseball From An Airplane
Babe Ruth, Out Standing In His Field, 1926 Yes, I know that is a terrible pun. Here is an apocryphal story about Babe Ruth and this little known feat. In this rare news photograph, Babe Ruth has just caught a baseball dropped … Continue reading
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Tagged 1926, Babe Ruth, New York Times, New York Yankees, Publicity
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Babe Ruth – Lou Gehrig Film Footage – Identified
An Iowa Family Recognizes Their Family In Recently Discovered Film Footage Of Babe Ruth And Lou Gehrig In 1927. As this story continues unfolding, the film footage of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig that was recently found was recognized by … Continue reading
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Tagged 1927, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, New York Times, New York Yankees
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Babe Ruth (Again) And Lou Gehrig – Recently Discovered Film Footage
Babe Ruth And Lou Gehrig On Film The New York Times reports more film footage of the mighty Babe Ruth has been unearthed, this time from 1927 showing Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig up close and personal in a barnstorming … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball, Movies
Tagged 1927, Academy Award, Babe Ruth, Entertainment, Lou Gehrig, New York Times, New York Yankees, Samuel Goldwyn, The Pride of the Yankees
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Babe Ruth As You’ve (Probably) Never Seen Him Before
Ask people to visualize Babe Ruth and some standard images of the Sultan of Swat might come to mind and look something like… Have you ever seen Babe Ruth doing any of the following things? The Babe practicing his bunting … Continue reading
The Original Yankee Stadium – Photographs and Memories
A Reflection on The Late, Great Yankee Stadium With Vintage Photographs I visited the new Yankee Stadium once in 2009 when it first opened. The feeling was a bit surreal. It was like being in Yankee Stadium, but it wasn’t. … Continue reading →