Word: babes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Babe Ruth, who spent most of the winter in a Manhattan hospital after a neck operation, flew to Florida for two weeks in the sun, played nine holes of golf in 45, and caught a 50-lb. sailfish. He was back in baseball at 52-as "consultant" to the boys' baseball program that Ford Motor Co. runs with the American Legion. Besides his salary (undisclosed), the onetime home-run king gets a shiny new Lincoln...
...hold its own. The great moments in Brooklyn's rowdy baseball tradition have usually been accidental: the time Hack Wilson was hit on the head with a fly ball while sassing the bleachers; the time three Dodgers slid into the same base at the same time; the day Babe Herman almost started a fire because he forgot to douse his cigar before putting it in his pocket. Under Durocher, such rowdyism is a deliberate way of life...
...Color. Leo Durocher, the holler guy, has added very little to baseball's respectability. But at a time when sport was empty of color-and the splashes of color made by Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Walter Hagen had faded-he was as refreshing to the bleachers as a bottle of beer on an August afternoon...
Five years later he was on the New York Yankees, and hanging around the great Babe Ruth. Ruth was making $70,000 a year, and Durocher $4,500; Leo did his best to spend as if they were equals, and soon owed nearly everybody. He was a whiz in the field, but Ruth warned him: "You ain't stayin' in this league long, buddy. You gotta be able to hit to stick up here...
Like legendary Paul Bunyan, Roy Cullen found a way to make money out of dry fields. Paul Bunyan had hitched his blue ox, Babe, to a dry hole, pulled the hole out of the ground, and sawed it up for pestholes. Cullen's method was simpler -and more effective. When he saw a dry hole he just drilled deeper...