Tough to top the Babe, but Albert still has time on his side.
And suddenly he faced an unsightly end akin to the Babe's final, punchless and abbreviated year with the Boston Braves.
"The King"--at 73 still swaggering in his cowboy hat, sunglasses, skinny jeans and mustache--is a living legend, the Babe Ruth of the oval.
But by 1934, when Babe Ruth (Beibu Rusu) barnstormed in Japan, Eiji Sawamura, a high schooler struck out the Babe, Lou Gehrig and other all-stars.
The Babe Ruth League's Cal Ripken division allows composite youth bats.
No matter that the Babe's lifetime total of 714 home runs, once a record, has been pushed down to No. 3 all-time by Aaron and Bonds.
The Babe was obviously a magnificent distraction, but seeing the way fans have stood by the game even during all the recent ugly revelations, I wonder if one player really did matter.
The Babe Ruth trade may be a distant memory but players rarely move directly between the Red Sox and Yankees - and likewise with United and Liverpool, with Phil Chisnall the last player to do so in 1964.
In a move as bold as The Babe pointing to the left field fence to call the shot on his next home run, Dr. Zeke Emanuel brother of Rahm and a leading expert on the American healthcare system along with Dr. Jeffrey Liebman, has called his own shot by predicting the extinction of the American private health insurance model by the year 2020.
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But the real Babe Ruth curse was more immediate and direct.
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But despite the efforts of today's "locavores" (who eat only locally produced foods), the pre-modern world of Babe the pig frolicking about the family farm is long gone.
It's just about the most affecting single moment that I've seen in a movie this year, and is a perfect capsule example of why the "Babe" films work so well.
The laughs that followed faded out when Babe Ruth wandered in and sat among the other legends, grinning Babe Ruth's grin.
It is decorated with memorabilia, including the transfer papers from when the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
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Even though Larkin only received 51.6% of the vote in his first year of eligibility (2010), many were of the opinion that he would join the ranks of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson and the other icons of the sport sooner rather than later.
Another fun summer read is Leigh Montville's book on Babe Ruth, The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth.
Yes, her party bears some of the responsibility for letting such a political babe in the woods stand for election and certainly the voters who put her in office need to STFU, because they were the ones marking the x next to her name, but Ms. Brosseau herself needs a crash course in taking control of her public image and political destiny.
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The Tri-Valley Babe Ruth All-Stars beat the same team they lost the title to in 2009, Tallahassee.
They toured the ballpark, saw Babe Ruth's jersey, the real thing.
Here you'll find Gay Talese on Joe DiMaggio, John Updike on Ted Williams' last at-bat, Grantland Rice on the death of Babe Ruth, and more.
It's part of the folklore that after the Black Sox World Series fix of 1919, Babe Ruth saved the game.
As the euphoric fans in a sea of orange emphatically cheered as Pablo Sandoval joined the likes of Albert Pujols, Reggie Jackson and Babe Ruth as the only men to hit three home runs in a World Series game, the pitching duo of Barry Zito and Tim Lincecum baffled the surprisingly inept offense of the Tigers.
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The Red Sox haven't won the World Series since 1918, a year before they sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
If the Boston Red Sox suffered through the Curse of the Bambino--an 86-year championship drought attributed to their sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees--call the Mets' whammy the Curse of the Straw Man.
The "Bambino" in question was baseball legend Babe Ruth - sold by the Red Sox owners to their bitter rivals, the New York Yankees, in 1920.
Then yesterday, he told the doctor he was Babe Ruth, a hopeful sign.
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