I guess there are people who will say "It's only baseball" but to me a game-used Babe Ruth jersey is every bit as much a part of our cultural heritage as a great work of art or historic document. If I own a Babe Ruth jersey I suppose I have a legal right to cut it into pieces just as I could set fire to an original Van Gogh or Picasso, or a copy of the Declaration of Independence, if I own it. That I have a right to do it does not make it any less despicable.
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