Babe Ruth It was every picture a kid could see in their dreams: The ball park packed with thousands of people, as a large man wearing the number three on his shirt picks up a big, heavy, bat on his way to the plate. He stands with his feet close together, staring at the pitcher: the bat, wrapped around his left shoulder, is held so far down that his fingers go over the bottom of …showed first 75 words of 1289 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1289 total…Babe still has a powerful grip on America’s imagination. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** WORKS CITED 1. Creamer W. Robert. “Forever The Babe.” Reader’s Digest 1995, 71-75. 2. Ketchum M. Richard. “Faces From The Past - XVIII.” American Heritage, New York 1965, 96 - 97. 3. Ritter, Lawrence S. The Glory of Their Times. New York: William Morrow And Company, Inc., 1984. 4. Ward, Geoffrey C. Burns, Ken. Baseball. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994 5. Zoss, Joel. Bowman, John S. The American League New York: Smithmark, 1986.