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Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · August 10, 1945 · 13 min · 2,604 words
The transcript of “Babe Ruth”, an episode of Bill Stern Sports Newsreel first broadcast August 10, 1945. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Bill Stern Sports Newsreel plays Bill Stern Sports Newsreel free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is Bill Stern with a 330-30 edition of the Colgate, Shape, Cream, Sports, Newsreel, featuring strains and fantastic stories, some of the legends others may or here say, but also interesting, we'd like to pass them along to you.
I guess tonight is the most famous baseball player of all time, the one and only Babe Ruth, but first, real one. What? Of a strange beginning. This is a story that's so interesting that I'd like to tell it to you as it was told to me.
This is the story of a hobo. Actually, he wasn't a hobo in the true sense of the word. His name was Harry. His family had given him a good education, but because Harry liked to roam and because he wouldn't stay home, he became a hobo as he drifted from one town to another.
Shortly after the turn of the century when our story opened, Harry had just run away from his home. He found himself in Baltimore, Maryland. He was broke. When one day on the street he happened to find a dollar bill, a dollar to Harry and a great deal with it and food in a place to sleep with them.
Suddenly Harry remembered something else. He remembered in a Baltimore orphan asylum was a youngster. A youngster wanted more than anything else in the world to own a baseball bat. Harry had seen this youngster the day before and the youngster told Harry how much he wanted a bat, for a while Harry thought about the youngster. How much that baseball bat had
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