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[Mrs. Babe Ruth, nee Helen Woodford (baseball)]
[1921]
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Call Number: LC-B2- 5562-9
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[Babe Ruth, New York AL (baseball)]
[1921]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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Call Number: LC-B2- 5463-13
From 1972 to 1975, this band was a HELLA group who did it ALL..Heavy Rock, Spanish/Spaghetti Western, Soul/Funk...just a SUPERB group under the direction of ALAN SHACKLOCK, one of the unheralded "geniuses" of rock music.
From L to R, the 1975 line-up : ED SPEVOCK (Drums, Percussion) ; STEVE GURL (Keyboards) ; DAVE HEWITT (Fender Bass, Fuzzbass) ; JANITA 'JENNY' HAAN (Vocals, Bells) ; ALAN SHACKLOCK (Guitars, Vocals, Keyboards, Percussion, Vibes)
Exhibit display at George Bush Library and Museum, Texas A&M University, on loan from the Baseball Hall of Fame
Babe Ruth patrols right field at Yankee Stadium in this photo from 1929. The apartment building behind the wall, 825 Gerard Avenue, is still standing to this very day.
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[Babe Ruth, New York AL (baseball)]
[1921]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
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Call Number: LC-B2- 5463-16
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States. It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, the other being Lexington, the state's second-largest city. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, located in the state's north and on the border with Indiana.
Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachian Mountains. It is named after King Louis XVI of France. Sited beside the Falls of the Ohio, the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system across 13 states. Today, the city is known as the home of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), the University of Louisville and its Louisville Cardinals athletic teams, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six Fortune 500 companies. Its main airport is also the site of United Parcel Service's worldwide air hub.
Since 2003, Louisville's borders have been the same as those of Jefferson County, after a city-county merger. The official name of this consolidated city-county government is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, abbreviated to Louisville Metro. Despite the merger and renaming, the term "Jefferson County" continues to be used in some contexts in reference to Louisville Metro, particularly including the incorporated cities outside the "balance" which make up Louisville proper. The city's total consolidated population as of the 2017 census estimate was 771,158. However, the balance total of 621,349 excludes other incorporated places and semiautonomous towns within the county and is the population listed in most sources and national rankings.
The Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), sometimes also referred to as Kentuckiana, includes Louisville-Jefferson County and 12 surrounding counties, seven in Kentucky and five in Southern Indiana. As of 2017, the MSA had a population of 1,293,953, ranking 45th nationally.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_Slugger_Museum_%26_Factory
The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, is a museum and factory tour attraction located in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row", part of the West Main District of downtown. The museum showcases the story of Louisville Slugger baseball bats in baseball and in American history. The museum also creates temporary exhibits with more of a pop culture focus, including collaborations with the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, Coca-Cola, LEGO artists Sean Kenney and Jason Burik, Topps Trading Cards, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, and Ripley's Believe It or Not!.
from 1924 world series
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Babe Ruth Quotes
Quotes from www.baseball-almanac.com
Quotes From & About Babe Ruth
Quotations From Babe Ruth
"All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill."
"All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good." Source: The American Treasury (Clifton Fadiman)
"As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy." Source: Giants of Baseball (Bill Gutman)
"Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere." Source: My Greatest Day in Baseball (John P. Carmichael)
"Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder." Source: The Babe Ruth Story (Babe Ruth)
"Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world." Source: The Babe Ruth Story (Babe Ruth)
"(Ty) Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit." Source: Big Sticks (William Curran)
"Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks."
"Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do." Source: Babe: The Legend Comes to life (Robert W. Creamer)
"Hot as hell, ain't it Prez (Calvin Coolidge)?" Source: How the Weather Was (Roger Kahn)
"How to hit home runs: I swing as hard as I can, and I try to swing right through the ball...The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go. I swing big, with everything I've got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." Source: Words of Wisdom (William Safire)
"I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands." Source: The Babe Ruth Story (Babe Ruth)
"I don't give a damn about any actors. What good will John Barrymore do you with the bases loaded and two down in a tight ball game. Either I get the money (more than Barrymore), or I don't play!" Source: Giants of Baseball (Bill Gutman)
"I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump (Wrigley Field) all the time."
"If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600."
"If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery." Source: Baseball As I Have Known It (Fred Lieb)
"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun."
"I never heard a crowd boo a homer, but I've heard plenty of boos after a strikeout." Source: Grand Slams and Fumbles (Peter Bellenson)
"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat."
"Just one (superstition). Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases."
"Paris ain't much of a town." Source: How the Weather Was (Roger Kahn)
"Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading." Source: Babe: The Legend Comes to life (Robert W. Creamer)
"Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. You know how bad my voice sounds. Well, it feels just as bad. You know, this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you're a boy and grow up to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing clubs today in your national pastime. The only real game in the world, I think, is baseball. As a rule, people think that if you give boys a football or a baseball or something like that, they naturally become athletes right away. But you can't do that in baseball. You got to start from way down, at the bottom, when the boys are six or seven years of age. You can't wait until they're 14 or 15. You got to let it grow up with you, if you're the boy. And if you try hard enough, you're bound to come out on top, just as these boys here have come to the top now. There have been so many lovely things said about me today that I'm glad to have had the opportunity to thank everybody." Source Babe Ruth Day Speech Transcript, Yankee Stadium, April 27, 1947
"That last one sounded kinda high to me."
"The termites (cancer, the day before he died, to Connie Mack) have got me."
"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."
"What the hell has Hoover got to do with it (his contract being bigger than the Presidents)? Besides, I had a better year than he did."
Quotes About Babe Ruth
"An outfield composed of (Ty) Cobb, (Tris) Speaker and (Babe) Ruth, even with Ruth, lacks the combined power of (Joe) DiMaggio, (Stan) Musial and (Ted) Williams." - Connie Mack
"A rabbit didn't have to think to know what to do to dodge a dog... The same kind of instinct told Babe Ruth what to do and where to be." - Sammy Vick
"Babe Ruth is dead and buried in Baltimore, but the game is bigger and better than ever." - Sparky Anderson
"Babe Ruth was the greatest baseball player that ever lived. I mean, people say he's less then a God, but more than a man. Like Hercules or something."- The Sandlot
"Babe Ruth struck out 1330 times." - Graffiti Seen in New York
"Babe Ruth, what can you say? You are almost speechless when people put your name alongside his name. I wish I can go back in time in meet him. Obviously, he was probably the most important sports figure in the world at that time. Hopefully, someday when I pass away, I get to meet him, and then I can really find out what he was really like." - Mark McGwire
"Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business." - Sammy Sosa
"He had such a beautiful swing, he even looked good striking out." - Mark Koenig
"He hits a ball harder and further than any man I ever saw."- Bill Dickey
"He (Honus Wagner) was a gentle, kind man, a storyteller, supportive of rookies, patient with the fans, cheerful in hard times, careful of the example he set for youth, a hard worker, a man who had no enemies and who never forgot his friends. He was the most beloved man in baseball before (Babe) Ruth." - Bill James
"He was very brave at the plate. You rarely saw him fall away from a pitch. He stayed right in there. No one drove him out." - Casey Stengel
"I can't believe that Babe Ruth was a better player than Willie Mays. Ruth is to baseball what Arnold Palmer is to golf. He got the game moving. But I can't believe he could run as well as Mays, and I can't believe he was any better an outfielder." - Sandy Koufax
"I had a great game against him... I held him to three hits." - Rollie Stiles in the Los Angeles Times (Obituary)
"I hope he lives to hit one-hundred homers in a season. I wish him all the luck in the world. He has everybody else, including myself, hopelessly outclassed." - Frank "Home Run" Baker
"It's a pretty big shadow - it gives me lots of room to spread myself." - Lou Gehrig
"No one hit home runs the way Babe (Ruth) did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands." - Dizzy Dean
"Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play." - Joe DiMaggio
"Now they talk on the radio about the record set by (Babe) Ruth, and (Joe) DiMaggio and Henry Aaron. But they rarely mention mine. Do you know what I have to show for the sixty-one home runs? Nothing, exactly nothing." - Roger Maris
"(Babe) Ruth made a grave mistake when he gave up pitching. Working once a week he might have lasted a long time and become a great star." - Tris Speaker
"(Babe Ruth) never played a night game, he never hit against fireball relief pitching, he never traveled cross-country for a night game and played a day game the next day, he never performed before millions of television viewers, he never had to run on artificial turf. It is the changes in the game, the modern factors that have made the game more difficult, that bring Babe in here as number three, behind (Willie) Mays and (Hank) Aaron. His feats were heroic. So were theirs. They simply did them under tougher conditions." - Maury Allen
"Some twenty years ago I stopped talking about the Babe (Ruth) for the simple reason that I realized that those who had never seen him didn't believe me." - Tommy Holmes
"The greatest name in American sports history is Babe Ruth, a hitter." - Ted Williams
"There's no question about it, Babe Ruth was the greatest instinctive baseball player who ever lived. He was a great hitter, and he had been a great pitcher." - Leo Durocher
"There will never be another Babe Ruth. He was the greatest home run hitter who ever lived. They named a candy bar after him." - Reggie Jackson
"They can talk about Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby and Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio and Stan Musial and all the rest, but I'm sure not one of them could hold cards and spades to (Ted) Williams in his sheer knowledge of hitting. He studied hitting the way a broker studies the stock market, and could spot at a glance mistakes that others couldn't see in a week." - Carl Yastrzemski
"We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax." - Whitey Herzog
"Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League." - John McGraw
Quotes From & About Babe Ruth
A fenced in area near Yankee Stadium (used as a parking lot during games) - a gorgeous mural which is not only a tribute to great Yankee players of the past but a capture of the surrounding neighborhood and a tribute to the graffiti artists that covered the subway cars back in the day. How appropriate that area kids are using the space to play the game.
The Yankees depicted in the mural from left to right : Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Thurman Munson. (Thanks The Prizefighter and Punk Dolphin for your help in the identification)
Y is for Yankees
The Flori de Léon apartments in downtown St. Pete, completed in 1927. The building was home to New York Yankees legends Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig during spring training. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
“As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world.”
~Babe Ruth
Meet Harry.
The Fame City mural, displayed on a wall outside Ball Park Lanes on River Avenue across from Yankee Stadium, features Yankee legends Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Thurman Munson.
May, 2015
Bronica SQ-Ai, Zenzanon PS 40mm/f:4
Ilford FP4+ @ ISO 125
HC-110 49+1, 11 mins @20C
This archetypal motel sits along old U.S. 1 in New Hill, NC. According to Ray, the wizened fellow sitting on a scooter nearby watching traffic go by, this motel was THE place to stay when you were driving from New York or points beyond, down to Florida, back in the day. His Daddy told him Babe Ruth had stayed here, and gangsters, too. This sounded interesting, but Cecilia, sister of the motel's owner, had told me a few minutes earlier not to believe a word 'that man over there' said, when I asked permission to photograph the motel. So I guess we'll never know...
[Another FLICKR page I found with links to articles on this motel and surrounding structures: flic.kr/p/9gdcas]
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville,_Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States. It is one of two cities in Kentucky designated as first-class, the other being Lexington, the state's second-largest city. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, located in the state's north and on the border with Indiana.
Louisville was founded in 1778 by George Rogers Clark, making it one of the oldest cities west of the Appalachian Mountains. It is named after King Louis XVI of France. Sited beside the Falls of the Ohio, the only major obstruction to river traffic between the upper Ohio River and the Gulf of Mexico, the settlement first grew as a portage site. It was the founding city of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, which grew into a 6,000-mile (9,700 km) system across 13 states. Today, the city is known as the home of legendary boxer Muhammad Ali, the Kentucky Derby, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), the University of Louisville and its Louisville Cardinals athletic teams, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, and three of Kentucky's six Fortune 500 companies. Its main airport is also the site of United Parcel Service's worldwide air hub.
Since 2003, Louisville's borders have been the same as those of Jefferson County, after a city-county merger. The official name of this consolidated city-county government is the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government, abbreviated to Louisville Metro. Despite the merger and renaming, the term "Jefferson County" continues to be used in some contexts in reference to Louisville Metro, particularly including the incorporated cities outside the "balance" which make up Louisville proper. The city's total consolidated population as of the 2017 census estimate was 771,158. However, the balance total of 621,349 excludes other incorporated places and semiautonomous towns within the county and is the population listed in most sources and national rankings.
The Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), sometimes also referred to as Kentuckiana, includes Louisville-Jefferson County and 12 surrounding counties, seven in Kentucky and five in Southern Indiana. As of 2017, the MSA had a population of 1,293,953, ranking 45th nationally.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_Slugger_Museum_%26_Factory
The Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, is a museum and factory tour attraction located in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row", part of the West Main District of downtown. The museum showcases the story of Louisville Slugger baseball bats in baseball and in American history. The museum also creates temporary exhibits with more of a pop culture focus, including collaborations with the Norman Rockwell Museum, the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center, Coca-Cola, LEGO artists Sean Kenney and Jason Burik, Topps Trading Cards, The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, and Ripley's Believe It or Not!.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. (b. February 6, 1895 – d. August 16, 1948 at age 53) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a stellar left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees.
Ruth established many MLB batting (and some pitching) records, including career home runs (714), RBI (2,213), bases on balls (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (OPS) (1.164); the latter two still stand today. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members.
MLB statistics:
Batting average - .342
Hits - 2,873
Home runs - 714
RBI - 2,213
Win–loss record 94–46
Earned run average - 2.28
Teams:
Boston Red Sox (1914–1919)
New York Yankees (1920–1934)
Boston Braves (1935)
Career highlights and awards:
2× All-Star (1933, 1934)
7× World Series champion (1915, 1916, 1918, 1923, 1927, 1928, 1932)
AL MVP (1923)
AL batting champion (1924)
12× AL home run leader (1918–1921, 1923, 1924, 1926–1931)
6× AL RBI leader (1919–1921, 1923, 1926, 1928)
AL ERA leader (1916)
New York Yankees No. 3 retired
Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame
Major League Baseball All-Century Team
Major League Baseball All-Time Team
Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame Inducted 1936
Link to all of his issued baseball cards - www.tradingcarddb.com/Person.cfm/pid/5120/col/1/yea/0/Bab...
Monument Park, created in 1974-75 during renovation of the original Yankee Stadium, housed the flag pole and a collection of monuments, plaques, and retired numbers honoring distinguished members of the New York Yankees. When the stadium was originally constructed, the flag pole was placed in play, over 450 feet from home plate to the left of straightaway center field. After manager Miller Huggins died suddenly of food poisoning, the Yankees erected a monument dedicated to him in front of the flag pole on May 30, 1982. The monument, a plaque mounted on an upright slab of red marble, was later joined by monuments dedicated to Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth upon their deaths, and a number of plaques were mounted behind them on the outside wall.
When the stadium was remodeled, the monuments were moved out of play to an enclosed area between the two bullpens. It wasn't until 1985 when the left field fence was moved in, though, that the park was opened to fans prior to games and during stadium tours. At that point, the rear fence lining the walkway from the grandstand seats to the monuments, which had been the actual outfield fence from 1976-1984, was adorned with the Yankees' retired numbers.
The ceremonial monuments are awarded posthumously and are the highest honor of all. The other two Yankees to receive the honor are Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio. Another monument was erected to remember the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Plaques honor: Edward Barrow, Joe McCarthy, Phil Rizzuto, Bill Dickey, Thurman Munson, Jacob Ruppert, Mel Allen, Red Ruffing, Whitey Ford, Reggie Jackson, Lefty Gomez, Casey Stengel, Don Mattingly, Elston Howard, Billy Martin, Allie Reynolds, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, Bob Sheppard, Pope Paul VI, and Pope John Paul II.
The following numbers are retired: 1 (Billy Martin), 3 (Babe Ruth), 4 (Lou Gehrig), 5 (Joe DiMaggio), 7 (Mickey Mantle), 8 (Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra), 9 (Roger Maris), 10 (Phil Rizzuto), 15 (Thurman Munson), 16 (Whitey Ford), 23 (Don Mattingly), 32 (Elston Howard), 37 (Casey Stengel), 42 (Jackie Robinson), 44 (Reggie Jackson), and 49 (Ron Guidry).
When the Yankees moved to the new new Yankee Stadium in 2009, a new Monument Park was built beyond the center-field fences, and everything was transported over.
The original Yankee Stadium, located at East 161st Street and River Avenue, served as the home baseball park of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees from 1923 to 1973 and, after extensive renovations, from 1976 to 2008. Nicknamed "The House that Ruth Built", it was the first three-tiered sports facility in the United States and one of the first baseball parks to be given the lasting title of stadium. Yankee Stadium hosted 6,581 Yankees regular season home games, and 37 World Series during its 85-year history. Yankee Stadium was the home of the National Football League's New York Giants from 1956-1973, before they relocated ultimately to Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, including the 1958 NFL championship game, and other short-lived professional football franchises including the three incarnations of the AFL's New York Yankees (1926, 1936-37, 1941), the AAFC's New York Yankees (1946-49), the NFL's New York Yanks (1950-51). It hosted three papal masses--Pope Paul VI (1965), Pope John Paul II (1979), and Pope Benedict XVI (2008); thirty championship prizefights--including Joe Louis-Max Schmeling and Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton; two professional soccer franchies--the USA/NASL's New York Generals (1967-68) and the NASL's New York Cosmos (1971, 1976); and college football--including the annual Notre Dame-Army game from 1925 through 1947.
The Yankees had shared the Polo Grounds with the New York Giants since 1913, but strained relations between the two teams led owners Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston and Jacob Ruppert to build their own stadium on a 10-acre lumberyard within sight of Coogan's Bluff. Originally designed by Osborn Engineering and built by the White Construction Company at a cost of $2.5 million, the stadium opened on April 18, 1923, with the Yankees beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1. By the late 1960s, the stadium's condition had badly deteriorated. After the stadium was purchased by the City of New York in 1972, it closed for a two-year facelift following the 1973 season, with the Yankees taking up temporary residence at Shea Stadium in the interim. The renovations by Praeger-Kavanaugh-Waterbury significantly altered the appearance of the stadium. 118 columns reinforcing each tier of the grandstand were removed, the Stadium's roof, including its distinctive 15-foot copper frieze, was replaced by a new upper shell, and a white painted concrete replica of the frieze was added atop the wall encircling the bleachers. The Stadium's playing field was lowered and shortened and Monument Park was created.
In 2007, Yankee Stadium was ranked #84 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
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The first five men elected were Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter Johnson, chosen in 1936.
Portrait Of Senior Picture Model During An Edgy & Creative Photography Session In Kooskia, Idaho by Shilo Bradley Photography
Babe Ruth
Uniform Retired: 1948
From 1920 - 1934, The Babe singlehandedly lifted baseball to new heights with his unlimited talent and unbridled love for the game. His enormous contributions to baseball and the Yankees made him the most celebrated athlete who ever lived.
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Monument Park, created in 1974-75 during renovation of the original Yankee Stadium, housed the flag pole and a collection of monuments, plaques, and retired numbers honoring distinguished members of the New York Yankees. When the stadium was originally constructed, the flag pole was placed in play, over 450 feet from home plate to the left of straightaway center field. After manager Miller Huggins died suddenly of food poisoning, the Yankees erected a monument dedicated to him in front of the flag pole on May 30, 1982. The monument, a plaque mounted on an upright slab of red marble, was later joined by monuments dedicated to Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth upon their deaths, and a number of plaques were mounted behind them on the outside wall.
When the stadium was remodeled, the monuments were moved out of play to an enclosed area between the two bullpens. It wasn't until 1985 when the left field fence was moved in, though, that the park was opened to fans prior to games and during stadium tours. At that point, the rear fence lining the walkway from the grandstand seats to the monuments, which had been the actual outfield fence from 1976-1984, was adorned with the Yankees' retired numbers.
The ceremonial monuments are awarded posthumously and are the highest honor of all. The other two Yankees to receive the honor are Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio. Another monument was erected to remember the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Plaques honor: Edward Barrow, Joe McCarthy, Phil Rizzuto, Bill Dickey, Thurman Munson, Jacob Ruppert, Mel Allen, Red Ruffing, Whitey Ford, Reggie Jackson, Lefty Gomez, Casey Stengel, Don Mattingly, Elston Howard, Billy Martin, Allie Reynolds, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, Bob Sheppard, Pope Paul VI, and Pope John Paul II.
The following numbers are retired: 1 (Billy Martin), 3 (Babe Ruth), 4 (Lou Gehrig), 5 (Joe DiMaggio), 7 (Mickey Mantle), 8 (Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra), 9 (Roger Maris), 10 (Phil Rizzuto), 15 (Thurman Munson), 16 (Whitey Ford), 23 (Don Mattingly), 32 (Elston Howard), 37 (Casey Stengel), 42 (Jackie Robinson), 44 (Reggie Jackson), and 49 (Ron Guidry).
When the Yankees moved to the new new Yankee Stadium in 2009, a new Monument Park was built beyond the center-field fences, and everything was transported over.
The original Yankee Stadium, located at East 161st Street and River Avenue, served as the home baseball park of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees from 1923 to 1973 and, after extensive renovations, from 1976 to 2008. Nicknamed "The House that Ruth Built", it was the first three-tiered sports facility in the United States and one of the first baseball parks to be given the lasting title of stadium. Yankee Stadium hosted 6,581 Yankees regular season home games, and 37 World Series during its 85-year history. Yankee Stadium was the home of the National Football League's New York Giants from 1956-1973, before they relocated ultimately to Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, including the 1958 NFL championship game, and other short-lived professional football franchises including the three incarnations of the AFL's New York Yankees (1926, 1936-37, 1941), the AAFC's New York Yankees (1946-49), the NFL's New York Yanks (1950-51). It hosted three papal masses--Pope Paul VI (1965), Pope John Paul II (1979), and Pope Benedict XVI (2008); thirty championship prizefights--including Joe Louis-Max Schmeling and Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton; two professional soccer franchies--the USA/NASL's New York Generals (1967-68) and the NASL's New York Cosmos (1971, 1976); and college football--including the annual Notre Dame-Army game from 1925 through 1947.
The Yankees had shared the Polo Grounds with the New York Giants since 1913, but strained relations between the two teams led owners Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston and Jacob Ruppert to build their own stadium on a 10-acre lumberyard within sight of Coogan's Bluff. Originally designed by Osborn Engineering and built by the White Construction Company at a cost of $2.5 million, the stadium opened on April 18, 1923, with the Yankees beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1. By the late 1960s, the stadium's condition had badly deteriorated. After the stadium was purchased by the City of New York in 1972, it closed for a two-year facelift following the 1973 season, with the Yankees taking up temporary residence at Shea Stadium in the interim. The renovations by Praeger-Kavanaugh-Waterbury significantly altered the appearance of the stadium. 118 columns reinforcing each tier of the grandstand were removed, the Stadium's roof, including its distinctive 15-foot copper frieze, was replaced by a new upper shell, and a white painted concrete replica of the frieze was added atop the wall encircling the bleachers. The Stadium's playing field was lowered and shortened and Monument Park was created.
In 2007, Yankee Stadium was ranked #84 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.
Babe Ruth was a Hall of Fame baseball player who spent the better part of his career with the NY Yankees. He had a career batting average of .342 and hit 713 homeruns which is 3rd all time, but a record until passed by Hank Aaron in 1973, almost 40 years after he retired. In 1999, a poll had Babe Ruth as the 3rd best athlete of all time behind Muhammod Ali and Michael Jordan.
During the 1927 season, Ruth was part of the famous Murders Row for the NY Yankees. That was coined toi the first 6 batters of the Yankees which included Earl Combs, Ruth, and Lou Gehrig. Players would say you couldnt get the first 6 out and they would just crush you. The team would go to the World Series that year and sweep the Pittsburgh Pirates.
That year was shadowed by one man, Ruth. Ruth hit an amazing 59 homeruns in 1923. His power was unheard of and Ruth set out to break that record. 4 years later, Ruth would accomplish that. In 1927, Ruth hit 60 homeruns. He said he did even though the pitchers wouldnt pitch anything good to him. His 60 homeruns stood as a record until 1961 when Roger Maris hit 61 homeruns.
This baseball bat is the bat Ruth used that 1927 baseball season. They beleive he hit every homerun with this bat. It is located at the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory in Louisville, Ky. It is a Louisville Slugger bat and for every homerun, Ruth carved a notch in the bat around the Louisville Slugger logo which you can still see today.
Look ma! No textures!
Ok, ok, this is just silllaaay. I might delete this.
I don't know what I was thinking or where I was going with this.
What really inspired me was one of my favorite artists on Flickr
riopel2dali : www.flickr.com/photos/41584152@N00/
and also this amazing artist Mattijin: www.flickr.com/photos/mattijn/
Anyhoo, I guess I wanted something strange and surreal. I don't know if I failed miserably or whaaaaaat.
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OK before anyone starts freaking out at me, I seriously don't know where the house stock came from. I've had if forever on my comp. Also, the brushes; I've had them for so long!!! I'm sorry! AH!
This is the original "Yankee Stadium" built in 1923 in the Bronx, New York. The home baseball park of the New York Yankees, it was also the former home of the New York Giants football team. The stadium's nickname, "The House That Ruth Built", is derived from Babe Ruth, the iconic baseball superstar whose prime years coincided with the stadium's opening and the beginning of the Yankees' winning history. A new modern stadium was built for the Yankees that opened in 2009.
There were so many famous players who played for the Yankees. These include: Joe DiMaggio, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Reggie Jackson, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera.
It was painted by request for former league player Ryan Dambach by his wife Val. He played for 6 teams in different leagues and in 2 countries. He is also the author of several books on baseball technique.href="http://www.holistichitting.com" rel="nofollow">www.holistichitting.com
If you look carefully, you will see Ryan's favorite player, the famous Willie Mays jersey number #19 scattered throughout the audience foreground.
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1960 Topps card #377
Roger Maris hit 61 home runs in 1961 to break baseball's single-season record of 60, set by Babe Ruth in 1927. Maris set the new record after a spirited season-long duel with fellow New York Yankee Mickey Mantle, who hit 54 homers the same year. Though Maris was the American League's MVP in both 1960 and 1961, he was not considered a major star and was maligned by some fans who felt he wasn't fit to stand alongside the legendary Ruth. (Similar sentiments cropped up when Hank Aaron beat Ruth's career home run record.) Maris's record was considered unofficial for some time, since it was achieved in 162 games rather than the 154-game season Ruth played; this is often referred to as "the asterisk" by Maris's name. In 1991, baseball commissioner Fay Vincent declared Maris to be the sole and official record holder, thereby ending the controversy
Exhibition at the American Wing in The Metropolitan Museum of Art NHL & NHP in the Upper West Side in New York City, NY
Ph06660B: The Babe poses at Reynolds Field in Hastings with local Hastings boys, officers of the Rotary Club, school officials, and village officers, June 16, 1927. The photograph shows, left to right, front row: William Steinschneider, Henry Cochrane, Charles Andres, Jim Leddy, Mayor Tom Reynolds, Harold Ulmer with son Harold, Jr. in front, Fred Charles, Harry Murray, Superintendent of Schools John L. Hopkins, and Coach E. Leroy Cochran; second row (behind man with boy): Laken Owens (behind the Ulmers), Norm DiChiara (boy), and Foster L. Hastings; top row: H.H. Murphy (bow tie), two unidentified, Jimmy Croke, William J. Russell Sr. (taller husky boy), unidentified, Kirby Brown, Babe Ruth, unidentified, Warren Reynolds, three unidentified, Dom Raimondo (from Irvington in open-necked shirt), unidentified. If you recognize any of the unidentified boys or men, let us know!
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George Herman "Babe" Ruth
1895 - 1948
A Great Ball Player
A Great Man
A Great American
Erected by the Yankees and the New York Baseball Writers
April 19, 1949
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Monument Park, created in 1974-75 during renovation of the original Yankee Stadium, housed the flag pole and a collection of monuments, plaques, and retired numbers honoring distinguished members of the New York Yankees. When the stadium was originally constructed, the flag pole was placed in play, over 450 feet from home plate to the left of straightaway center field. After manager Miller Huggins died suddenly of food poisoning, the Yankees erected a monument dedicated to him in front of the flag pole on May 30, 1982. The monument, a plaque mounted on an upright slab of red marble, was later joined by monuments dedicated to Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth upon their deaths, and a number of plaques were mounted behind them on the outside wall.
When the stadium was remodeled, the monuments were moved out of play to an enclosed area between the two bullpens. It wasn't until 1985 when the left field fence was moved in, though, that the park was opened to fans prior to games and during stadium tours. At that point, the rear fence lining the walkway from the grandstand seats to the monuments, which had been the actual outfield fence from 1976-1984, was adorned with the Yankees' retired numbers.
The ceremonial monuments are awarded posthumously and are the highest honor of all. The other two Yankees to receive the honor are Mickey Mantle and Joe DiMaggio. Another monument was erected to remember the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Plaques honor: Edward Barrow, Joe McCarthy, Phil Rizzuto, Bill Dickey, Thurman Munson, Jacob Ruppert, Mel Allen, Red Ruffing, Whitey Ford, Reggie Jackson, Lefty Gomez, Casey Stengel, Don Mattingly, Elston Howard, Billy Martin, Allie Reynolds, Roger Maris, Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, Bob Sheppard, Pope Paul VI, and Pope John Paul II.
The following numbers are retired: 1 (Billy Martin), 3 (Babe Ruth), 4 (Lou Gehrig), 5 (Joe DiMaggio), 7 (Mickey Mantle), 8 (Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra), 9 (Roger Maris), 10 (Phil Rizzuto), 15 (Thurman Munson), 16 (Whitey Ford), 23 (Don Mattingly), 32 (Elston Howard), 37 (Casey Stengel), 42 (Jackie Robinson), 44 (Reggie Jackson), and 49 (Ron Guidry).
When the Yankees moved to the new new Yankee Stadium in 2009, a new Monument Park was built beyond the center-field fences, and everything was transported over.
The original Yankee Stadium, located at East 161st Street and River Avenue, served as the home baseball park of Major League Baseball's New York Yankees from 1923 to 1973 and, after extensive renovations, from 1976 to 2008. Nicknamed "The House that Ruth Built", it was the first three-tiered sports facility in the United States and one of the first baseball parks to be given the lasting title of stadium. Yankee Stadium hosted 6,581 Yankees regular season home games, and 37 World Series during its 85-year history. Yankee Stadium was the home of the National Football League's New York Giants from 1956-1973, before they relocated ultimately to Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, including the 1958 NFL championship game, and other short-lived professional football franchises including the three incarnations of the AFL's New York Yankees (1926, 1936-37, 1941), the AAFC's New York Yankees (1946-49), the NFL's New York Yanks (1950-51). It hosted three papal masses--Pope Paul VI (1965), Pope John Paul II (1979), and Pope Benedict XVI (2008); thirty championship prizefights--including Joe Louis-Max Schmeling and Muhammad Ali-Ken Norton; two professional soccer franchies--the USA/NASL's New York Generals (1967-68) and the NASL's New York Cosmos (1971, 1976); and college football--including the annual Notre Dame-Army game from 1925 through 1947.
The Yankees had shared the Polo Grounds with the New York Giants since 1913, but strained relations between the two teams led owners Tillinghast L'Hommedieu Huston and Jacob Ruppert to build their own stadium on a 10-acre lumberyard within sight of Coogan's Bluff. Originally designed by Osborn Engineering and built by the White Construction Company at a cost of $2.5 million, the stadium opened on April 18, 1923, with the Yankees beating the Boston Red Sox 4-1. By the late 1960s, the stadium's condition had badly deteriorated. After the stadium was purchased by the City of New York in 1972, it closed for a two-year facelift following the 1973 season, with the Yankees taking up temporary residence at Shea Stadium in the interim. The renovations by Praeger-Kavanaugh-Waterbury significantly altered the appearance of the stadium. 118 columns reinforcing each tier of the grandstand were removed, the Stadium's roof, including its distinctive 15-foot copper frieze, was replaced by a new upper shell, and a white painted concrete replica of the frieze was added atop the wall encircling the bleachers. The Stadium's playing field was lowered and shortened and Monument Park was created.
In 2007, Yankee Stadium was ranked #84 on the AIA 150 America's Favorite Architecture list.