1895/02/06 |
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Babe Ruth's Birthplace |
Baltimore, MD |
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Babe Ruth's Birthday |
1902/06/13 |
"when I was 7 years old my father and mother placed me in St Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore. It has since been called an orphanage and a reform school. It was, in fact, a training school for orphans incorrigibles, delinquents" - Babe Ruth |
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1914/07/11 |
Babe Ruth makes his major league debut as the starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox against the Cleveland Naps. |
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Fenway Park |
Boston |
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1915/03/00 |
Julian Hawthorne spends a month at the Braves spring training grounds in Macon, Georgia. Hawthorne is impressed with a rookie named Babe Ruth. "He is a born pitcher, no doubt, but he can hit too." JH |
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Macon |
Georgia |
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1925/02/15 |
Yankee business manager (de facto general manager), Ed Barrow, sends Babe Ruth to Hot Springs, Arkansas to lose weight and shape up through a program of exercise and steam baths. |
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Bathhouse Row |
Hot Springs, AR |
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The Bellyache Heard Round the World |
1925/04/04 |
Unconscious, Babe Ruth is taken by taxi to the Battery Park Hotel, where he stays overnight. |
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Battery Park Hotel |
Asheville |
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The Bellyache Heard Round the World |
1925/04/09 |
George H Ruth has surgery for an intestinal abscess at New Yorks St Vincents Hospital on W 11th St. He wound stayed in the hospital until May 25. |
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The Bellyache Heard Round the World |
1925/06/01 |
The Bambino returns to playing baseball for the Yankees. |
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The Bellyache Heard Round the World |
1925/12/15 |
"About the middle of December 1925, Babe Ruth came into my gymnasium in New York City a physical wreck.... Ruth weighed 254 pounds, his blood pressure was low and his pulse was high." Artie McGovern, former flyweight boxer turned personnel trainer. |
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1926/01/26 |
Six weeks later, the Sultan of Swat had lost 44 lbs and his pulse rate went from 92 to 78. Babe Ruth would workout with Artie McGovern every winter for the rest of his playing career. |
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1930/00/00 |
Babe Ruth visits Cap Huston. |
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Butler Island Rice Plantation |
Altamaha Wildlife Management Area |
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1931/04/08 |
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth each hit home runs in the New York Yankees' 11-3 win during an exhibition game at McCormick Field minor league baseball stadium in Asheville, North Carolina. |
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Asheville |
North Carolina |
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1932/10/01 |
Babe Ruth calls a home run? in the fifth inning of Game 3 of the 1932 World Series. Ruth appears to point to the center-field bleachers to call his shot. |
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Wrigley Field |
Chicago |
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1934/00/00 |
On a voyage to Japan in 1934, Gehrig found his wife in Ruth's cabin, smelling of liquor. Gehrig and Ruth didn't speak again to each other until Gehrig's Yankee Stadium retirement speech in 1939. |
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1935/00/00 |
Babe Ruth has a few at the Gramercy Park Hotel Bar |
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Gramercy Park Hotel |
New York City |
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1935/02/00 |
Boston boosters host a dinner for Babe Ruth at The Copley Plaza Hotel to celebrate his return to Boston after 16 years with the New York Yankees. |
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Copley Plaza Hotel |
Boston |
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1939/00/00 |
Babe Ruth endorses Red Rock Cola. |
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Red Rock Premium Cola |
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1939/07/04 |
Babe Ruth speaks at Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day at Yankee Stadium as members of the 1927 Yankees honor the first baseman in front of a sellout crowd. |
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1942/00/00 |
"The Pride of the Yankees" is released. |
Babe Ruth plays himself |
The Pride of the Yankees (film) |
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1942/12/00 |
Alfred Gilman at Yale School of Medicine test nitrogen mustard, a chemical weapon related to the Mustard gas used as a weapon in WW I, in a human. Government secrecy rules prevented publication until 1946, after several hundred patients had been treated. |
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New Haven, CT |
Connecticut |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1946/11/00 |
Ruth enters the French Hospital where doctors diagnose sinusitis caused by infected teeth. After pulling 3 teeth, Ruth's face swells, closing his left eye. Unable to swallow food, doctors treat him with radiation, causing his hair to fall out in chunks. |
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French Apartments |
New York City |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1946/12/00 |
Surgeons operate on Ruth's neck, tieing off the external carotid artery because the cancer had wrapped itself around it. The cancer pressed on nerves, partly paralyzing muscles controlling his voice, causing hoarseness and difficulty swallowing. |
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French Apartments |
New York City |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1947/02/15 |
Babe Ruth is released from French Hospital. Babe and his wife, actress and model Claire Merritt Hodgson, lived at 100 Riverside Drive at 82nd St. He went to Florida to recuperate. |
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Riverside Drive-West 80th-81st Streets Historic District |
New York City |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1947/06/29 |
Over the objections of team members, Dr Lewisohn's begins Ruth on daily injections of teropterin for 6 weeks. Ruth knew teropterin had rarely been used on humans, but asking no questions and apparently did not sign formal consent, as is required today. |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1947/08/00 |
Dr Lewisohn's teammates leave Mount Sinai because the hospital refused to support further research on teropterin. |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1948/06/05 |
A gaunt and hollowed out Ruth visits Yale University to donate a manuscript of 'The Babe Ruth Story' to the school's library. |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1948/06/13 |
Babe Ruth's uniform is retired at the 25th anniversary of Yankee Stadium and sent to Cooperstown to the Baseball Hall of Fame. |
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National Baseball Hall of Fame Museum |
Cooperstown, NY |
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1948/06/13 |
As the stadium filled with "Auld Lang Syne", Nat Fein of the New York Herald Tribune, gets a feeling, walks behind Ruth and takes a picture of the Great Bambino at home plate leaning on a bat facing "Ruthville" (right field). |
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Auld Lang Syne |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1948/06/25 |
Ruth is admitted to Memorial Hospital (now Memorial-Sloan Kettering Hospital) in New York City. Mr Ruth ask his doctor: "Doc, this is Memorial. Memorial is a cancer hospital. Why are you bringing me here?" |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1948/07/29 |
Babe's Picture is taken at Memorial Hospital, is believed to be the last picture of the baseball idol. With him is Steve Broidy of Allied Artists movie studio, who is presenting Ruth with a check for the Ruth Foundation for underprivileged children. |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1948/08/16 |
George Herman Ruth dies of pneumonia at Memorial Hospital (now Memorial-Sloan Kettering Hospital) 1275 York Ave, between 67th and 68th Streets, in Manhattan. |
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Upper East Side |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1948/08/18 |
On August 17, an estimated 50,000 fans pass Babe Ruth lying in state in the rotunda at Yankee Stadium, an estimated that 55,000 viewed the open coffin on the 18th. |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1948/08/19 |
Cardinal Francis Spellman leads 6,000 mourners in a special prayer at the end of the solemn 1 hour requiem mass and funeral for the George H Ruth at St Patrick's Cathedral. 75,000 people waited outside the Cathedral in the pouring rain. |
In Memoriam |
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St Patrick's Cathedral |
New York City |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
1948/08/19 |
6,000 people attend as Babe Ruth is place into a receiving vault at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Hawthorne, New York. The family will later select a site for burial. |
In Memoriam |
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Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne |
Mount Pleasant, NY |
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Babe Ruth and the Birth of Modern Cancer Treatment |
2017/00/00 |
Symptoms of naso-pharyngeal cancer are nose bleeds, lumps in the neck and hearing loss in one ear. Usually treated with radiation and chemotherapy, 40 percent of patients with advanced naso-pharyngeal cancer survive at least five years. |
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