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Even after the Cubs sold First-Baseman Eddie to the Phillies, Ruth worshiped him from an altar of his pictures on her night table. Once she got up near to him outside the ballpark and fainted. In her diary she wrote: "Phils are losing. I bet it's none of Eddie's fault," and on the same page, "I'll be glad when you're dead, you rascal you." Papa Steinhagen, a no-nonsense die-setter and father of another, less emotional daughter, got fed up with all the foolishness. Ruth's folks sent...
Unable to seat the crowd in a local tobacco warehouse, we moved to the Rocky Mount Ballpark (pictured but not mentioned in your story). Then it rained. Under a canopy rigged by attaching the home plate canvas covering to a 300-ft. cable swung from the roof of the stadium, Dr. Swalin and his orchestra performed to 6,000 white and Negro county school kids, bettering by 3,000 any previous audience...
Bill DeWitt had his reasons. Chief among them: the Browns own St. Louis' $1,200,000 Sportsman's Park (which they rent to the Cardinals for $35,000 a season) and a new $721,000 ballpark in San Antonio. Before anybody got impudent enough to ask whose money he used to buy the Browns, Bill firmly announced: "There are no associates in this thing with us. It's all Charlie and myself...
...worst came to worst, Bill DeWitt could always sell some ballplayers or a ballpark-or he could pack up the Browns (and their league franchise) and move them to another city. Since ball clubs began to travel by air, sportwriters have talked about the possibility of moving the franchise to the Pacific coast. Many of them feel sure that St. Louis would not support that much baseball, even if the Browns were a first-division club...
...Babe Ruth Story. It turned out to be a mawkish tribute that left out everything that was robust about the man. Last week, back in the hospital again at 53, the Babe was deluged with letters wishing him well; newspapers were swamped with calls asking about his condition, ballpark crowds stood in silent prayer for his recovery. This week death came to George Herman Ruth...