Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
May 01, 2006
The Babe and the Ballfield

Here's a nice story about Babe Ruth helping a church in Philadelphia pay off a loan on a ballfield by playing in an exhibition game during the 1923 season:

It was not recorded how much money the game raised, but it was enough to pay off Casey's loan.

Curiously, while all the Philadelphia newspapers dispatched reporters to cover the exhibition game, they weren't inclined to cut Ruth any slack.

"Ruth's Bat Fails Ascension Club" read the story's headline in the next day's Evening Bulletin.

I guess some things never change. :-)


Posted by David Pinto at 08:45 AM | All-Time Greats | TrackBack (0)
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re: The Babe seeks salvation

given what we know of babe ruth's life, that he spent nearly every night on the road with a different female prostitute, sometime more than one at a time, and that he drank and ate to excess, one can easily understand his compulsive need to atone for his sins by being excessively kind and earnest with churches, young children and chaste women.

However I wish to point out that I was jogging one fine morning some years ago in San Carlos CA and I saw Barry Bonds playing baseball with a bunch of little leaguers at around 9 am on a saturday or sunday morning, no adults around, just hitting ground balls and fungoes to all of them, showing them how to play the game. He and they looked like they were having a great time. I went off & jogged around an hour and when I came back they were still there happy and having fun.

From this I conclude Barry is not such a bad guy and that he really loves kids, much like the Babe.

I don't think he and the Babe are so different after all. Barry is a great athlete and entirely misunderstood.

--arthur john kyriazis
--philly

Posted by: arthur john kyriazis at May 2, 2006 06:05 PM
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