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Nput Vprn-(!Irattni (Boimtg fttlilfr Utbmrtt The NEW BERN r PUBLISHED WEEKLY *'* the heart op ^ :*>n north O'/ l^_^6o VOLUME 15 NEW BERN, N. C. 28560, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18,1972 NUMBER 23 If your Ud, or the Ud next door, is one of New Bern’s Babe Ruth Leaguers, save this column for him. He may want to put it in his scrapbook. This ^tor was Just about your boy’s age when he first met the Bambino. Tlie thrill of that autumn afternoon, so long ago, still glows for us in the twiU^t years. What was the Big Fdlow’s greatest day in baseball? Sig>pose we tuni back the clock, and let the Babe tell it in his own words. *T’d had a lot of trouble in ’32, and the Yankees weren’t any cinch to win that pennant either. Sometime in June I pulled a muscle in my right leg chasing a fly ball. I was on the bench for about three weeks, and when I started to play again I had to wear a rubber tondage from my hip to my knee. “I always had three ambitimis. I wanted to play 20 years in the Majors. I wantra to play in 10 World Series, and I wanted to hit 700 home runs'. Well, this was my 19th year and my lOth Series, and I Anally ended up with 720 homers, counting World Series games. “The World Series didn’t last long, but it was a honey. That Malone and that Grimes (of the Cubs) didn’t talk like any Sunday school guys, and their trainer, Andy Lotshaw, he got smart in that first game at New York too. “Hut’s what started me off. I popped up once in the first game at Yankee Stadium, and he was ontheir bench waving a towel at me and hollering, ‘If I had you. I’d hitch you to a wagm, you pot-belly.’ “I didn’t mind the ball players ydling at me, but the trainer cutting in, that made me sore. As long, as they started in on me, we let ’em have it. We didn’t have much trouble winning that flrst game. “We were riding them about how cheap they were to Mark Koenig only voting him a half share in the Series, and they were calling me big belly and balloon-head. But I think we had ’em madder by giving them that old lump-in-the throat sign. “You know, the thumb and Anger at the windpipe. That’s like calling a guy yellow, and it got nmct to ’em. “In the first inning of that third game, in Chicago, I got hold of one with two, on, and parked it in the stands for a thr^ nm lead, and that stopped them from hollering much until they tied it 4-4 in the fourth. “I didn’t know whether they were gonna get on me any more or not, when I came to bat in the flfth, but I saw a lemon rolling to the plate and I looked over and there was Malone and Grimes with their thumbs in their ears wagging their Angers at me. “I told Gabby Hartnett, the catcher, ‘If that bum (Charlie Root) throws me in here. I’ll hit itover the fence again “and I’ll ONCE UPON A TIME—Kafer Park couldn’t hold the say for Gabby, be didn’t an- crowd that turned out for Babe Ruth Day, a few short swer, but those other guys wera months before the Bambino died from an incurable standing up in the disease. New Bern’s Bears and their mortal enemies, the Kinston Eagles, engaged in a Coastal Plain (Continued on page 8) League contest, and the Camp. Lejeune Marine Band, seen here with some of the bleacherites, was on hand to pw musical homage to the incomparable Bambino. The Mirror’s editor, as master of cere> monies, was in hog heaven distributing baseballs autographed by the Babe to kids who held lucky numbers.
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