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...Babe Ruth Story (Allied Artists] is a gawking tribute to a man who deserves better. From the time the grownup Bambino (William Bendix) leaves the shelter of Brother Matthias' (Charles Bickford) industrial school and enters professional baseball, he shambles along such an interminable frieze of sobbing boys, dying dogs and disabled children (to a final, horribly protracted sickbed scene in a hospital) that the real events of Ruth's life are almost entirely crowded out. Sportwriter Sam Levene and Ruth's screen wife Claire Trevor do their level best to make up for this hokum; but even...
...Bronx, Babe Ruth put on his old uniform for the last time: in a homeplate ceremony at Yankee Stadium the uniform was formally presented to the Hall of Fame and National Baseball Museum at Cooperstown, N.Y., and the Bambino's celebrated old number 3 was officially retired, never again to identify a Yankee...
...first the skeptics said, as Samuel Johnson said of a dog walking on his hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." In Zurich, an oboist tested Pierino by deliberately playing a false note during rehearsal. The bambino stopped the orchestra, sternly told the oboist to get back on the track...
Legs & Lefties. The only player who holds an edge over the little Giant as a right fielder is the mighty George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, whose big bat always obscured his prowess afield. But at bat and in the field, 173-lb. Mel gives the 215-lb. Bambino a good...
...only Big Train; at the plate the one & only Bambino, the greatest pitcher of all time v. the greatest swatter of them all. Between the first and second games of a war-chest doubleheader- New York Yankees v. Washington Senators-Walter Perry Johnson (54) and George Herman ("Babe") Ruth (47) stepped out of the Hall of Fame this week to take one last crack at each other...