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Canada Lee

Bill Stern Sports Newsreel · April 16, 1948 · 14 min · 2,375 words

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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this is Bill Stern with the Colgate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel. Bill Stern, the Colgate Shave Cramanis on the air. Bill Stern, the Colgate Shave Cramanis Story's rare. Take his advice and you'll look in your ganish shave to smooth and clean.

You'll be a Colgate brushless band. The 446th edition of the Colgate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel. Featuring strange and fantastic stories, some that are legends, others mere hearsay. But also interesting, we'd like to pass them along to you.

Our guest tonight is the fabulous Canada Lee, but first, Real one, part trait of a baseball player. Next week, the Major League Baseball season opens, yet it doesn't seem right. But once again, a baseball season is opening without Babe Ruth.

Babe Ruth, who came out of Baltimore, Arkansas, and had become the greatest home run here to the game of baseball, as ever known. Babe Ruth, who was the become the most famous ball player in the world.

But wait a minute. Let me tell you a story about Babe Ruth. A story that begins in the year of 1925. When Babe Ruth was the star of the New York Yankees. The Yankees stopped off in Asheville, North Carolina, to play an exhibition baseball game.

Just before that game, several of his teammates began to kid the babe about how much he could eat. For Babe Ruth had a tremendous appetite. In fact, his appetite was so big that Babe Ruth offered to bet that he could eat at least a dozen hot dogs.

The rest of the players said that he couldn't sort of settle at that. Babe Ruth called Bill the Yankee locker room boy over to him and said, Listen Bill, these guys think I can't eat a dozen hot dogs.

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