How Babe Ruth Beat a Pandemic, Twice

[The Patriot]

In 2008, the one and only eulogy ever given for Babe Ruth was delivered by Bill Jenkinson, a historian who has been scrutinizing the baseball legend for decades. It took place at an event that attracted 2,500 people to St. Patrick's Cathedral, the very place of Ruth's 1948 funeral, and this was 60 years later. There had been no eulogy at the funeral.

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