As a rainstorm soaked the city of Passaic, N.J., on May 3, 1933, six boys living at an orphanage had one concern: What is all ...

I’m telling you, it makes me proud and happy to be here ... Mayor William O’Dwyer declared “Babe Ruth Day” in New York City, the same day that the film “The Babe Ruth Story,” based ...

N.H., one of Ruth's adopted daughters. The family asked that flowers be omitted. "Babe had frequently expressed the feeling," Carey explained, "that making some 'kid' happy was the best method of ...

Usually, I don’t share personal stories, but considering the great Babe Ruth would’ve been 130 years old today, this one is just too good to keep bottled up. Now, let’s be clear — I never ...

Is this what it was like to watch Babe Ruth play every day? No. Really. That’s a fair question now. We know Babe Ruth was a great slugger — maybe the greatest slugger — because we can read ...

By the time commissioner A.B. "Happy" Chandler announced that April 27, 1947, would be Babe Ruth Day around the majors, Ruth had become much more than just a record-shattering slugger. He was a ...

Babe Ruth’s kids kept their word to keep the baseball legend's memory alive Alex Gurley is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work has previously ...