Babe Ruth book

[JoeyF1981]

Originally Posted by insidethewrapper

Do any of the books report that "The Babe" was shot by a woman, as indicated by the HBO documentary mentioned on another thread ( I didn't see the HBO documentary ) ?

Im not sure but on the documentary it says Ruth was dating some latin chick and he told her he had to break it off with her because he was going to be on the road for training and she caught him at some bar with another woman. They go on to say she started walking towards him pulling out a gun and shot him in the calf. He was sitting next to tony lazzeri at the time and from what the guy said they just laughed about it and kept on drinking..lol

[billyb]

Wasn't there a story about a prank they pulled on one of their team mates. I am trying to go by memory, so this may be trouble.
The story goes they had it all planned that they took one of their team mates over to a house, and the plan was a husband, or boyfriend, or something, arrived at the house and grabbed a gun, Babe yelled to the team mate to run, which he did and soon after he got out of the house, the guy inside fired a couple of shots. This team mate didn't stop until he got back to the hotel.
In the meantime, Babe drove back to the hotel, got into bed and continued the prank, pretending he was shot. And that was all I remember. I believe I read it on a Babe Ruth thread on Baseball fever site.

[JoeyF1981]

Originally Posted by billyb

Wasn't there a story about a prank they pulled on one of their team mates. I am trying to go by memory, so this may be trouble.
The story goes they had it all planned that they took one of their team mates over to a house, and the plan was a husband, or boyfriend, or something, arrived at the house and grabbed a gun, Babe yelled to the team mate to run, which he did and soon after he got out of the house, the guy inside fired a couple of shots. This team mate didn't stop until he got back to the hotel.
In the meantime, Babe drove back to the hotel, got into bed and continued the prank, pretending he was shot. And that was all I remember. I believe I read it on a Babe Ruth thread on Baseball fever site.

lol...wow I never heard that before but thats a funny story. Im sure that was one of hundreds of crazy things he did. Sounds like he lived a pretty crazy life

[billyb]

He lived it large, all the way. One of these days, I would like to see a photograph thread of Ruth, "outside the chalk lines". All his photos off the field, I think it would be cool.