WPLN News Archive; Babe Ruth (Anita Bugg) 6 11 04; News Archive 4/22/04-6/17/04

for several of the story about waivers that will cause is a nashville native mickey crying and it's a gleam in his eye when he talks about the great bambino and nobody's seen is great big body <unk> to me he was just the greatest and the sole person that will allow in baseball politics it was a sunday april eight nineteen thirty four the last time babe ruth would play at nashville's old software dale ballpark back then the major league teams would pack up at the spring training load into railroad cars and go barnstorming across the south crimea remembers that exhibition game with the hometown nashville balls like it was yesterday old work without fame is always so the veil and the first job was an exhibition in reactors came and the boy so course everybody looking for babe ruth jubilee hall at about fifteen thousand a day and they'll just unbelievable and college said they were the crowd packed every inch around the park waiting to see one man who was nowhere to be found that

that missile again ten the virus within the babe ruth and babe ruth in the failed so i started the knesset and sell a ballpark that way could he be in the clubhouse as the one that someone outside apartment demonstrating there was debate femina was itzhak fried worms go film and coalescing delightful the game in baltimore cramer's childhood friends carl shuman who later would be known as the mayor printers halley was also a bad boy on that day and he asked very renowned for his love of kids if you go up and visit the junior league home for cripple children at the corner of my grow and not believe that'll involved in theatre tv talk july just a little just little bit so it was always like a lot of my family always about poor they've begun a site they

decide to say the more you think about one but there were some when someone who i gave in sullivan he will so the first lady says so city had this is so for the us to believe this is over there ruth played right field that day right field it's offered there was known as the doubt where steep hill lead up to the outfield fence it was slippery and often dangerous to play the doubt but ruth even though he was nearing the end of his career insisted on playing right field that day he didn't hitting homers just two singles but the crowd less satisfied anyway the ball's one sixty five and unlike his yankee teammates resigned every autograph he could that was the last you're babe ruth or yankees uniform though he brought them their first world series wins and brought in more than a million fans a season a first for a major league team forcing them to build at yankee stadium in nineteen thirty

five the team's owner offered ruth a contract for one dollar he once commanded more than others but even realize but if baby he went on to play part time for boston and then became a coach for the brooklyn dodgers and the jobs he thought would lead to managers positions but they were never offered george herman ruth died in nineteen forty eight of throat cancer today ricky kreitner is still bitter about the way his idol was treated i think he was pretty worsen the bottom of the window to be such a great star then even the terminally <unk> roof because the neighboring guatemala hundred people in a family and that's a lot that they buy will say bye bye kreitner went on to play the game he invade love so much he made it to the big leagues as a catcher for the chicago cubs before coming back to nashville to launch a successful restaurant business

so for dale which opened in eighteen eighty five was torn down in nineteen sixty nine is now a state employees parking lot there's a sign on fourth avenue north just east of the bicentennial mall designating the site of the oak park in the low lying land in the shadow of the state capital union soldiers occupying nashville first played the game little did they know but following in their footsteps years later would be the game's greatest player from nashville public radio annie to fire ha ha ha ha ha