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Posted By: Bob Rousseau

Heard a variation of the Babe 'urine' story. He was supposedly at some high class event and used the cruder term for 'urine' and someone took him aside and told him he shouldn't say that in polite society. So, when people re-convened at the table, Ruth said "I'm sorry I said "piss".

Then there's the story of an opposing team taking Ruth out the night before a game to get him loaded so they'd mess up his game the next day. But though hung over, in that game he did great, and he said to them "OK boys- where are you taking me tonight?" (he knew what they had tried to do to him).

Robert Creamer wrote a great book on the Babe, and his comments in "Ken Burns" baseball were wonderful. He had a great ability to describe baseball with the passion and love that a young kid would. I loved when he talked about going to see a guy at Yankee Stadium when he was a kid and Ruth swinging and missing at a ball, but briefly facing where Creamer was sitting, and Creamer said he though "Wow! Babe Ruth is looking right at me!"