Recent Posts Tagged With 'babe ruth'

• Babe Ruth, Movie Actor

  Posted on Thursday August 13th, 2009 at 19:46 in 1, babe ruth, early baseball movies, headin' home, reel baseball

  Many baseball fans already know about how Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees after the 1919 season, apparently to fund his production of the play My Lady Friends in 1920, which became Frazee’s musical, No, No, Nanette, in 1925...

• Babe Ruth on “the Japs” in World War II

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 15:40 in misc., babe ruth, 1934 japan baseball tour, baseball in world war two

  On March 18, 1944, the New Yorker, after hearing that the Japanese troops were yelling “to hell with Babe Ruth” as an insult when fighting against the American troops, paid a visit to the Babe at his apartment on Riverside Drive in upper ...

• Waite Hoyt Retiring 27 Batters in a Row

  Posted on Wednesday June 17th, 2009 at 23:46 in pitchers, misc., babe ruth, waite hoyt, home run records, perfect games, 1919 boston red sox

  To conclude this series on perfect games, unofficial perfect games, and near-perfect games, here’s some information on Waite Hoyt pitching for the Boston Red Sox on September 24, 1919, and maintaining perfection from the fourth inning to the 13...

• Rumors of the Red Sox Trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1915

  Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 01:20 in pitchers, misc., babe ruth, hitters fielders, 1915 red sox, 1915 yankees, babe ruth trade rumor

  I happened across an item in the New York Times of February 3, 1915, about a trade rumor in basically the winter meetings after the 1914 season: “As usual, the air was full of rumors of trades. The one rumor which seemed to carry the most weigh...