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Smiling enigmatically blue-eyed Sylvia Pankhurst would admit only that the father of her black-eyed babe is "a foreigner ... a man much interested in politics...
...babe she said, "I hope he will be a great man. ... I have no brothers living and there is no one but he to perpetuate the name. . . . You see we have called him Richard Keir Pethick Pankhurst...
George Herman "Babe" Ruth, failing to hit, wrote to New York for his favorite bat, Big Bertha, the heaviest bat used in the big leagues (48 ounces). Big Bertha has 31 notches in the handle, each notch for a home run. Ruth broke his bat Betsy in June when there were twelve notches...
...Yankee camp in St. Petersburg, Florida, Babe Ruth stopped running on third base. He was afraid if he went on his feet would blister. John Koszciusko Grabowski, catcher, took off a reducing shirt when he was hot, caught cold. Lou Gehrig wrote his mother to send him a jar of potted eels...
...imposing New York Giants thus shed a player who ranks in popular imagination with Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, the late Christy Mathewson. Manhattan, irate, demanded reasons. The Giants management sat silent...