"Never let the fear of striking out keep you
from coming up to bat. All that can be asked of you is to give it your best." BABE RUTH
"What Babe Ruth is comes down one generation, handing it
to the next, as a national heirloom". Jimmy
Cannon
Babe Ruth is the man who saved baseball and launched a major league revolution in hitting! Join our effort
to honor the Babe by having his famous number 3 retired throughout Major League Baseball.
As baseball’s first and greatest home run king, Babe Ruth revolutionized the sport. In 1920, his fifty-four
home runs made all the critics of baseball forget about the 1919 Black Sox scandal, and brought the fans back to our national
pastime. His first year in New York drew over a million fans into the ball parks. There was yet another gambling scandal after
the 1926 season which implicated both Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker. Neither man was convicted of anything, but they were both
forced out of their respective positions with their teams. In an article that was written, Babe told the public not to worry
about the scandal, and predicted the greatest baseball season ever in 1927. My grandfather captured the attention of the entire
nation by breaking his own record by smashing 60 home runs. By the end of the season, everyone had forgotten the black eye
that had afflicted baseball earlier that same year. Babe Ruth saved baseball for the second time
courtesy of George Alverio
The Babe and Linda
Babe Ruth’s granddaughter, Linda Ruth
Tosetti is the youngest of six children born to Babe’s blood daughter, Dorothy Ruth Pirone.
She has lectured on the life of her legendary grandfather, George Herman "Babe" Ruth at various
universities, the Societyof American Baseball Research and the Baseball Hall
of Fame, in Cooperstown, New York. She has contributed stories to the Chicago Sun- Tribune, the
New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Hartford Courant, and ESPN
to name a few. She has been an honored guest at Yankee Stadium, Fenway Park and various important sporting venues and events
throughout America. As a direct descendent of Babe Ruth, Linda Ruth Tosetti loves to learn more on the life and times of her
fabled grandfather, for she is a student of Babe Ruth, and loves to share the stories from an intimate family point of view.
(photo by Jeanne Newman)
Linda Ruth Tosetti Standing in front of the house her grandfather built.
Linda with replica of Babe's 54 onuce bat
Pics below (left to right) first row: (left to right) Linda Ruth Tosetti, David Mantle (top) and
Danny Mantle, My husband Andrew and I at the Hall of Fame in front of the famed sculpture of Babe, The Slammin' Bambino
in Boston (1918); Second row: Babe pitching for Yankees 1933,Babe in Boston 1915, Babe with children...always
happy and smiling; Third Row: Babe barnstorming in the Negro Leagues, Bill Jenkinson's book, "The Year Babe
Ruth Hit 104 Home Runs", Ray Negron's book, "The Boy of Steel"
