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...BABE: THE LEGEND COMES TO LIFE...
...baseball fans it is a great moment in history-like the Pilgrims' landing at Plymouth Rock or King John's signing the Magna Carta. There stands Babe Ruth with two strikes on him, gorilla-chested, monkey-faced, pipestem-legged, pointing imperiously to deep centerfield. It is the 1932 World Series against Chicago in Wrigley Field, and when Cub Pitcher Charlie Root fires the ball, the Babe hits a vast home run to the very spot, winning the ball game. Unfortunately, things did not happen quite that way. But, as Robert Creamer demonstrates again and again in this book...
Dozens of books have already been written about Babe Ruth. Four new titles will be in the bookstores before the end of this baseball season. The one that provides the most pleasure, and information, is unquestionably Creamer's. It is the first really adult biography of the Babe, as well as one of the best, and least sentimental, books about a great sports figure ever written. Though it is no hagiography, Babe will please worshipful sports fans. Sports biographies are rarely truthful, and when truthful they are customarily boring. Creamer, a senior editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, does not disguise...
...those checks ready-we're on our way." He also made it a point to phone up Actor Bruce Dern, a pal since they both scuffled through a bunch of low budget bike pictures, for a little needling: "Hey, Dernsie, I think you better retire, babe. I got it all covered -know what I mean?" Nicholson has called Dern "my only real competition -you and the guy on the hill" (referring to Marlon Brando, whose home off Los Angeles' Mulholland Drive is directly above Nicholson...
...Babe Ruth's record-buster Hank Aaron stepped up to the plate at the All-Star game in Pittsburgh last week looking like thunder. The Atlanta Braves had fired Manager Ed Mathews, then announced that Hank would not get the job. "They should have asked me," said Hank. Then he underlined the fact that baseball has yet to have a black manager. "I'd probably say yes. Maybe that's what they are afraid of." The team also ruled out his brother Tommie, 34, manager of Atlanta's AA team in Savannah, now in a tight...