Word: babes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contrast to Ruth, who was good and didn't care who knew it, the Giants' boss slugger is inclined to be diffident about it all. Says Mize of the Babe's record: "I've never broken it and I don't know why I would this year." Walker Cooper admits that the Giants are likely to beat the team record this year-but, he adds, "it's up to the rest. Lord knows...
Brawny (6 ft. 2 in., 205 Ibs.) Johnny Mize is -bearing down hard on Babe...
Ruth's individual record (set in 1927) of 60 home runs in a season. With a golf-like swing, Babe Ruth used to send the ball to towering heights, drop it in the bleachers or loft it over the right-field roofs. Mize, a competent workman with none of the Babe's color and crowd appeal, drills out line-drive homers by main force. This week he was slightly ahead of the Babe's 1927 pace. But to keep up with it, Mize will have to put on a mighty late-season spurt. In setting the record...
Family Affair. Ailing Babe Ruth himself, 15 years a Yankee player, has become a Giant fan-partly because he likes to see home runs, partly (he explains) because the Polo Grounds are closer than Yankee Stadium to his apartment on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Ruth doubts that Mize or anybody else will break his record; but if somebody has to break it, he hopes that big Jawn will be the man. Mize is Mrs. Ruth's second cousin, and the Babe would like to keep the record in the family...
Koreans liked him. When he appeared in public, young Koreans crowded around, as eager to see Lyuh as American kids are to shake hands with Babe Ruth. He was head of the Korean Amateur Athletic Association, helped make the marathon Korea's national sport...