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Birthplace of The Babe

BabeRuthMuseum.jpgBefore Thursday’s game in Baltimore, I had the opportunity to visit the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum, which is something I’ve wanted to do for years while on the Yankees beat. I’m so glad I finally made it over there.

Just a short walk from Camden Yards at 295 Emory Street, the museum is built on the site of the row house where The Babe joined us on Feb. 6, 1895, at the time the rented home of Ruth’s grandparents. The history of the building alone is a neat tale – by the 1960s, it had fallen into disrepair and was scheduled to be razed before public outcry saved it.
The sections of the home where the Babe would have taken his first breaths have been restored with period decorations, including the upstairs bedroom where Ruth was born. 
The rest of the museum is a tribute to Ruth’s life, including many artifacts donated by his family over the years, like a pair of bats he used during the 1927 season, original seats from the reserved section at Yankee Stadium and even a radio Ruth treasured in his New York apartment until his passing in 1948. 
There are some amazing artifacts that somehow survived over the years, like the tattered gloves Ruth wore playing ball as a youth (in addition to his fielder’s glove, he also got behind the plate with a right-handed catcher’s mitt, which he used Jim Abbott-style) and what may be his first-known autograph – “George H. Ruth, World’s Worse (sic) Singer, World’s Best Pitcher,” scribbled on the inside cover of a hymnal book found under a floorboard at St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore. 
Special thanks are in order for Mike Gibbons, the museum’s executive director, who took a few minutes out of his busy day to help show me around. If you’re planning on heading down to Baltimore the next time the Yankees are in town, you’ll definitely want to set aside some time to drop by the Ruth birthplace, as well as the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards. 

On this date in 1923…

Yankee Stadium became The House that Ruth Built.

Fitting, perhaps, that the Yankees will be in Ruth’s home town of Baltimore for the weekend, opening a three-game series with the Orioles. While they’re there, some of the reporters who cover the Yankees are heading over to the Babe Ruth Museum for a tour.

If you’ve never headed down I-95 to ‘invade’ Oriole Park at Camden Yards, let’s just say that there are plenty of Yankees fans who do. You should definitely put this one on your travelogue. It’s a great ballpark and the Inner Harbor is quite nice for walking, shopping and eating, especially on a day as nice as this one.

Here are the pitching matchups for this series:

Friday: Phil Hughes, RHP @ Daniel Cabrera, RHP (0-0, 5.94)
Saturday: Ian Kennedy, RHP (0-1, 8.74) @ Brian Burres, LHP (1-1, 5.40)
Sunday: Andy Pettitte, LHP (2-1, 3.38) @ Steve Trachsel, RHP (1-2, 5.65)

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