From the Archives: Babe Ruth on wallpaper and a timeless taunt

A brother-in-law fascinated by the newspaper clippings he found glued to his walls while peeling off old wallpaper just had to see the original page from the Herald archives.

That’s how I became useful on Christmas Day. The spark of curiosity is alive in all of us and I vowed to dig up that clip.

“It was about Babe Ruth!” he told me. “From Sept. 29, 1932.”

“Found it,” I texted back the next day.

Here it is! If you have a historical itch you need to scratch, the Herald archives go back to the mid-1800s and I can assist. The better the story, the more we can share in the discovery. It’s fascinating stuff. Here’s the full story from that day in time when Babe Ruth, alas no longer a Red Sox, helped the Yankees win the World Series:

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This series — a four-game sweep — included Game 3 on Oct. 1, 1932, when Babe Ruth hit one of the most memorable home runs in Major League Baseball history when he called it before hitting it into the seats at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

That timeless taunt will last forever.

Anticipating your question, here I go digging for that clip … found it! But it seems the legend of Ruth calling out his homer, with two strikes, would need more time to spread. Here’s the pages:

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I’ll get back to current history. See you in the New Year!