In these grim times of war and danger in Europe, before we get back to serious things, we need another Babe Ruth talking short. The Babe will make you laugh and feel good. The last one above showed him coaching a female baseball team. Yes, Babe loved women. The Babe was also a hero to kids and he liked to be around them. The Babe was a big kid. He really did stop to observe stickball games, and give advice. He did help kids who needed medical procedures, and visited them in the hospital. He did promise to hit home runs for them if they got better. The Johnny Sylvester story, seen in "Pride of the Yankees", actually happened. Here is a Universal/Christy Walsh short from 1932, "Slide Babe, Slide":
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