Babe Ruth 
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
5/25/2020
How Baseball Players Became Celebrities
Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, idols of the Golden Age of sports, brought stardom to America’s pastime.
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SOURCE: Public Books
3/26/2020
Babe Ruth's New York @ 100
by Jonathan Goldman
When Babe Ruth started hitting home runs, the US started to change.
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SOURCE: NY Times
12/30/19
Why on Earth Did Boston Sell Babe Ruth to the Yankees?
by Jane Leavy
The sale, at the end of 1919, changed baseball — and New York City — forever.
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4/29/18
Why We Think of Babe Ruth as an Overgrown Boy and Why We’re Wrong
by Edmund F. Wehrle
What this historian learned by reexamining Ruth’s life from a racial and gender perspective.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
3-26-14
Early footage of Babe Ruth vs. Walter Johnson
The footage was found in the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collections.