Remembering Babe Ruth

[Enfuego]

So this date in 1948, we lost a baseball Icon, what are some rare things you know of the Bambino? I'll Break the ice: both Ruth and I both have birthdays in February, his is on the 6th and mine is 4 days prior

[Joshchisox08]

Ty Cobb the movie "He ran ok for a fat man".

[porkchops]

Ruth played a little baseball in the Bethlehem Steel
League for the Lebanon , Penna. team .... I was born in Lebanon , PA.
The Babe was there in 1918 ... I made my debut in 1951.

[HRBAKER]

The Babe and my wife share their birthday with Ronald Reagan, Feb. 6. She of course is quite a bit younger.

[DeanH3]

1933 was the last year he won an HR title. He and Gehrig both had 46 to lead the league.

[Batter67up]

August 16th: Two legends passed on the same day 29 years apart. Babe Ruth in 1948 and Elvis Presley in 1977.

[hank_jp]

On December 28, 1942, Babe Ruth was the most prominent of nearly 50 German-Americans to sponsor a full page ad in the New York Times and ten other major publications denouncing Hitler's policy of cold-blooded extermination of Jews and encouraged the German people to rise up against him.
For more details see this story in the Jewish Post co-authored by our own Les Wolff.
http://www.jewishpost.com/news/Babe-...ring-WWII.html

[CW]

I'll admit I had to look these up, so I didn't actually know these prior to this thread, but I know 'em now. Cheating perhaps, but interesting nonetheless.

Ruth’s first major league hit was a double off the Yankees’ Leonard Cole at Fenway Park on Oct. 2, 1914 in a game he started and won.

Ruth lived for a time on the site of what is now Oriole Park at Camden Yards, above one of his father’s string of saloons.

(those first two were found on SI.com, while the next factoid came from history.com, giving credit where it's due)

Ruth possessed underrated quickness on the base paths—he stole home 10 times in his career although he made the last out of the 1926 World Series attempting to swipe second base—but it couldn’t compare to the speed he displayed behind the wheel. Ruth’s litany of speeding tickets, traffic violations and automobile accidents was nearly as prolific as his 714 home runs. On June 8, 1921, Ruth was arrested in Manhattan for speeding—albeit at 26 miles per hour—for the second time in a month and sentenced to spend the rest of the day in jail. Released 45 minutes after the start of that day’s game, Ruth put on his Yankee uniform underneath his suit and sped off with a motorcycle escort in time to play for the Yankees.

from: http://www.history.com/news/10-thing...bout-babe-ruth