Babe Ruth returned to his memories of a past glory. For his part, explaining the reasons why the photos he made in 1948 a) are in color and b) never ran in LIFE, Morse reminded LIFE.com that the ...

In 1947, Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier ... “To see Babe Ruth, the giant, the great home run hero of the ’20s and ’30s, reduced to a bent-over, hair-dyed, old man at the ...

Babe Ruth's hair is for sale. Leland's, an auction house in Old Bridge, N.J., is auctioning it along with other goodies from boxing legend Muhammad Ali and Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan.

Only ten known examples of Babe Ruth's rookie baseball ... featured a 19-year-old Oriole pitcher named Ruth. Only ten copies of that card in either color are known to exist today.