data.3news-bydate.train.rec.sport.baseball.105989 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (Chris J. Roney)
Subject: Re: The Babe v. The Pride of the Yankees
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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[email protected] (Eric Behrens) writes:
>The Babe and The Pride of the Yankees offer very different renditions of
>the sotry about Ruth and Gherig hitting home runs for the boy in the
>hospital. Can some historian out there explain "history's" version of the
>story.
>I wouldn't put is past either (or both) of the movies to season the truth
>with a little extra spice.
>Any other comments as to inaccuracies in these two movies?
Good question! I kind of wondered about this myself. Just one
thought I had on it - the Babe himself was IN "Pride of the
Yankees", which made me think
a) that version may be closer to the truth, and
b) the Babe must have been a pretty good gut to be in the movie even
though some of the scenes didn't make him look completely flattering.
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Chris Roney (e-mail [email protected])