I'm not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.
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Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.
Babe Ruth was not afraid to strike out. And it was this fearlessness that contributed to his remarkable career.
There is nothing like Ruth ever existed in this game of baseball. I remember we were playing the White Sox in Boston in 1919, and he hit a home run off Lefty Williams over the left-field fence in the ninth inning and won the game. It was majestic. It soared.
Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know there is very little difference.
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.
I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
Babe Ruth is an icon, in sports and in our society.
You don't have to know anything about baseball to respond to Babe Ruth because he's just this magnificent human being. And a really good story because he was this kid who grew up essentially as an orphan, you know, had a tough life, and then he became the most successful baseball player ever. But he was also a really good guy.
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
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