Although the Babe went to Florida most winters , If I was going to take a wild guess. I would say that in 1943 with a WAR going on he was so heavily involved with the War Bond effort (see article below) that he would not have been at ease fishing, golfing and hunting during the winter months. Just a guess.
In 1943, Giants slugger Mel Ott was the teammate as he and Ruth went on the air with WABC radio in New York, "batting out" $25 and $100 war bonds to fans willing to lay down cash to talk to the greatest home run hitters in American and National League history.
Babe also visited four or five military hospitals a week, and in an act almost impossible to fathom today, appeared onstage at New York movie matinees in the summer of 1943, urging audiences to contribute salvageable material to the war cause.
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