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The following is excerpted from Weintraub's The House That Ruth Built, about Babe Ruth, the Yankees, and the 1923 baseball season. More »
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As part of his relentless media odyssey this week, Charlie Sheen introduced himself to Twitter with a message that had a Chappelle-esque, "Kiss the rings, bitches" quality to it. It was an image of Sheen's shimmering 1927 World Series ring that was once worn by another winner with an equally insatiable appetite for showgirls and booze: Babe Ruth. More »
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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day. More »
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A Delaware man is allowing the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore to display the Babe's rookie card—he was still a pitcher—for free, even though the card's approximate value is half a million dollars. [Big League Stew] More »
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How does he know? He saw it in person. Dude's old as dirt, and he's still never seen the Cubbies win it all. More »
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MLB Productions has unearthed the only known footage of Babe Ruth actually playing defense in the outfield. He sitting on a barstool and talking to a hooker, but he's still in right field! [NYTimes] More »
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It was moving day for the Yankee Stadium monuments on Tuesday. Sadly, during the short drive to the new stadium, the Mickey Mantle monument was arrested for DUI. [New York Daily News] More »
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Bill Werber, oldest living major leaguer and teammate of Babe Ruth, passes away at age 100. [Newsday] More »
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And Bill Werber brings some strong trash talk. Specifically he refers to current players as "a grubby-looking bunch of caterwaulers." A caterwauler? According to dictionary.com that's the sound a cat makes when it's in heat. So, yeah, I can see that. Werber tells stories about playing cards against Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig on the train. And he even gives some advice Babe Ruth shared with him after Ruth hit a homerun. Per NBC, More »
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We don't know about you, but we've grown tired of your traditional baseball cards, with their stats and biographical details and pithy anecdotes. We would like our baseball cards to include actual human hair, so that we might clone our favorite players and raise them as pets. Is there any way that could be possible? Yes! More »
]]> http://deadspin.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5011329&view=rss&microfeed=true The always indulgent Page Six breaks a story that happened 80 years ago about Babe Ruth's penchant for whorehouse visits. I wonder if that's where he learned how to call his shot. [NY Post] More »
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JoeSportsFan asks a question we've been curious about ourselves: What would happen if ESPN, the way it exists today, covered historic events? Could we handle Skip Bayless opining on Ty Cobb? How about the Babe's "called shot?" More »
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