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As told by Mike Gibbons, who is the executive director of the Bay Ruth Birthplace and Museum. in Baltimore, Maryland. Our story begins in the 1932 World Series between the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs. The babe came up in game three and in the fifth inning pointed to where he was going to hit the next pitch and hit it for the longest home run in Wrigley Field history. It became known as the Cald Shot, one of the most dramatic World Series moments of all time.
Now what happened though was the series which was won by the Yankees was shortened. Not all the games were played, including the last two which were scheduled for Yankee Stadium and the Yankees had to refund $100,000 to ticket holders for the games that were not played. This was during the Great Depression. The Yankees, although they were making money, did not have a lot of extra income from the World Series that year and went into 1933 having to cut salaries, including a bunch of money from Babe Ruth's contract.
So Babe takes a cut. He's not happy about that, but goes off and performs pretty well that season. He beat Lou Gehrig in the home run count that year, but was a distant second to slugger Jimmy Fox from the Philadelphia Athletics. in his last game of 1933. Dave Ruth was asked to pitch at Yankee Stadium by the Yankees.
And he said, okay, I'm going to do that. He had only pitched once in the previous 12 years. But anyway, he got himself in shape to pitch and went out and pitched a complete game, 6-5 victory, over the Boston Red Sox.
So Babe still had it in him.
So we come to the end of. 1933. Ruth knows he's getting old. And, you know, he says, I really think that I want to stick around with the Yankees because I'd like to manage.
So he went to Yankees' ownership and asked them if there was a chance that he could ever manage the New York ball club. And Colonel Rupert, the owner of the Yankees, said, No, I'm going to stick with McCarthy, our current manager. And to wit, he gave McCarthy a three-year extension through 1935. Babe Ruth never had a chance with the Yankees. He was approached about that time to manage the Boston Red Sox.
But Ruth said no. He still felt that he had too much cachet as a player with the Yankees, and he turned that down. The White Sox were interested as well. Again, Ruth showed no interest. He wanted to play and manage in New York.
And after the 1933 season, he found out that the Detroit Tigers really wanted him. The Tiger owner was Frank Navin, and Frank spoke with the Yankee ownership and asked them if they could work out some kind of a deal that would get Ruth to come over to Detroit as a player manager in exchange for a ball player or two. And they did work out a deal, and Navin asked Ruth to come to Detroit and meet with him. But the babe had scheduled a trip to Honolulu with his family and said, I'll talk to you when I get back from Hawaii. In the meantime, Navin was not real happy with that response and signed a guy by the name of...
Mickey Cocklin. who had played for Connie Mack in Philadelphia, and Cochran was signed by the Tigers as a player manager. And Ruth, you know, his response when he found out about this in Hawaii, he said, well, I'm another year older and it may be time to quit, but I will play if I have a chance to be a manager. The Yankees suggested that Babe in 1934 would go and manage their minor league squad in Newark, New Jersey. And he said, No, I'm not going to do that.
I'm a major league baseball player, and why would I need to go and manage in Newark? I know this game well, I can take over as a major league manager right now. They offered to pay him less money again that year, and he did accept another salary decrease going from $52,000. In 1933, down to 35,000 in 1934. That was still.
the most uh money made by any major league player that year. But his skills badly diminished And when he got going in that season, he had a cold in his back, whatever the heck that means. He was hit by a pitch that sidelined him for a while. And then Lou Gehrig hit a ground ball when Ruth was on base. The ball hit Babe above the right ankle and knocked him out for a bit.
And, you know, things just were getting worse and worse and worse. The Yankees, who would finish second that year, were fortunate in August to see Ruth hit his 700th home run. But again, at that time, that really happy time, he said that he was almost done as a regular player and would only play another year if he was offered the opportunity to manage. He asked Colonel Rupert again about manager McCarthy. Rupert said he still believed McCarthy was his guy.
The babe turned down offers from other teams until he was approached by the Boston Braves. During that time, a deal was worked out between the Yankees and the Boston Braves, who were interested in having Ruth come over to be a fan draw. And they dangled in front of Ruth the opportunity later on to manage.
So they they gave the babe twenty-five thousand dollars. to be an assistant manager and player. and also a vice president of the team. And so he uh He accepted the deal and agreed to play and to be an assistant manager. To manager Bill McKechney, and so off they went into 1935.
In the first game of the year, Ruth hit a two-run homer and accounted for the other two runs that the Braves got as they beat the Giants 4-2. But then his body really turned against him. He is 40 years old, and he collected two more hits, one being a homer, over the next month of the baseball season.
So things are really spiraling down for the babe at this time. And he starts to talk about. Being put on the voluntary retired list and doesn't want to play anymore. But Fuchs convinced Ruth to suit up for one more series of away games. He suits up, he goes out.
goes on the trip starting in in St. Louis. And as we get into late May of that year. Things are just not going very well. But he continues to play.
His batting average dropped to 155. Can you believe that? By the time he gets to Pittsburgh, He does have a Ruthian day. On Saturday, May 25th, Babe comes to the plate, first inning, and hits a two-run homer. Then he comes up again, this time off of pitcher Guy Bush, who was a rival of Ruth, dating back to the 1932 World Series, where Bush was pitching for the Cubs and hit Ruth in an at-bat.
And so Ruth remembered that and he hit another two-run shot off of Guy Bush. In the seventh inning, Bush is still on the mound, and Babe comes up and hits home run number three off of Guy Bush. Bush later said that he had never seen a ball hit so hard. And it went over the roof at Forbes Field, the first ever to travel that distance.
Someone measured the home run as being 600 feet, the longest in the history of any game ever played at Pittsburgh. Uh it proved to be that that Mammoth 600-foot home run proved to be Ruth's final hit. in the major leagues. In Philadelphia on May 30th, Thursday, He batted. It was Babe Ruth Day in Philadelphia.
And he came to the plate, struck out in the first inning. And then in the bottom of the first. As he was playing the field, he hurt his knee and left the game. And he would never go back and play again.
Now, the owner, Fuchs, he was saying, Come on, babe, we got to have you here. Babe said, Look, I'm hurt. I've been invited to get on board the new ocean liner called the Normandie, a French boat, back in New York. And he said, Let me just go down there and heal, and I'll take a couple of days and then I'll come back with the club. Fuchs said, No, you're staying right here with us.
And so. That was it. Ruth blew up, Fuchs blew up, and on June 2nd, a Sunday, Ruth... Went ahead and retired from the game of baseball. Given his unconditional release by Fuchs.
It's interesting, the Braves were 10-27 when Ruth quit and wound up finishing 38-1-15, the worst record of any National League team. in the 20th century. Uh and a terrific job on the storytelling and production by Carter McNish. And a special thanks to Mike Gibbons, who's the executive director of the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. And what a story.
Imagine this, folks. In 1933, ball players took a pay cut like the rest of America. And Babe Ruth's salary continued to get cut. as his talents and skill faded. But what did he do?
His last hit. in his life at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, 600 feet. cleared the roof, never to have another hit again in his life. The story of Babe Ruth's retirement. Here on Our American Stories.
Mm. This is Sophie Cunningham from Show Me Something. Do you know the symptoms of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea or OSA in adults with obesity? They may be happening to you without you knowing. If anyone has ever said you snored loudly or if you spend your days fighting off excessive tiredness, irritability, and concentration issues, it may be due to OSA.
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