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Summary: Nat Stein's Pulitizer Prize winning photograph of Babe Ruth
Review: This is a 25 x 21 print of Babe Ruth, which won photographer Nat Fein the Pulitzer Prize. The photograph, officially entitled "The Babe Bows Out," was taken on June 13, 1948 at Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built." This was the 25th anniversary of the opening of the stadium and also the day that the Babe's number "3" was officially retired by the New York Yankees. Ruth was suffering from cancer of the throat, although his family had kept the fatal diagnosis from him. Gaunt and frail as a result of his long illness, Ruth was introduced by Mel Allen, at which point he shrugged off his camel's hair coat and walked out of the dugout into what sportswriter W. C. Heniz called "the caldron of sound he must have known better than any other man." As a cane Ruth used a bat he picked up, which turned out to belong to future Hall of Famer Bob Feller, the Cleveland Indians pitcher. Ruth's once booming voice was reduced to a thin rasp as a result of surgery that had damaged his larynx, but he managed to croak out a few words into the forest of microphones. In a little over two months, George Human Ruth would die at the age of 53. This well-known photograph, featured at both the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institute, represents the last time the Babe wore his old uniform. This is easily one of the ten most famous baseball photographs ever taken, of a man who was the most photographed person on the planet during his lifetime, and a poignant last look at the Sultan of Swat.
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Summary: Nat Stein's Pulitizer Prize winning photograph of Babe Ruth
Review: This is a 25 x 21 print of Babe Ruth, which won photographer Nat Fein the Pulitzer Prize. The photograph, officially entitled "The Babe Bows Out," was taken on June 13, 1948 at Yankee Stadium, "The House that Ruth Built." This was the 25th anniversary of the opening of the stadium and also the day that the Babe's number "3" was officially retired by the New York Yankees. Ruth was suffering from cancer of the throat, although his family had kept the fatal diagnosis from him. Gaunt and frail as a result of his long illness, Ruth was introduced by Mel Allen, at which point he shrugged off his camel's hair coat and walked out of the dugout into what sportswriter W. C. Heniz called "the caldron of sound he must have known better than any other man." As a cane Ruth used a bat he picked up, which turned out to belong to future Hall of Famer Bob Feller, the Cleveland Indians pitcher. Ruth's once booming voice was reduced to a thin rasp as a result of surgery that had damaged his larynx, but he managed to croak out a few words into the forest of microphones. In a little over two months, George Human Ruth would die at the age of 53. This well-known photograph, featured at both the National Baseball Hall of Fame and the Smithsonian Institute, represents the last time the Babe wore his old uniform. This is easily one of the ten most famous baseball photographs ever taken, of a man who was the most photographed person on the planet during his lifetime, and a poignant last look at the Sultan of Swat.
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