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‘The Babe Would Have Loved This’
By JOHN G. GRIFFIN
UPI Sports Editor
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
slender, dark-haired little lady
looked out over the sea of aces,
and spoke slowly in a voice
choking with emotion: "Thank
you. The Babe would have
loved this.”
It was the climactic moment
of one of the most sentimental
moments in baseball’s dramatic
100-year history—the moment
when Mrs. Babe Ruth acknow-"
ledged at a special centennial
dinner in the nation’s capital
Monday night the selection of
her late husband as the
‘‘greatest baseball player of all
time.”
The dinner, held in a plush
Washington hotel, on the eve of
the 40th All-Star Game, brought
together under one roof more of
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the great players and officials
of the game than ever have
been assembled in one place
before.
Baseball, proud of its tradi
tion, as the “national pastime”
and anxious to preserve its
claim to that title in the future,
marked the first century of the
game on an organized profes
sional basis by announcing the
, line-up of players chosen by the
.-Baseball Writers Association as
[ the greatest living players and
I the greatest players of all time.
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■ Many of the players honored
I were present—gnarled, double
talking Casey Stengel as the
i “greatest living manager,” a
I greying Joe DiMaggio as the
; “greatest living baseball play-
■ er”, and people like Stan
Babe Ruth
Musial, Willie Mays, Charlie ’
Gehringer, Pie Traynor, Bill
Dickey, Bob Feller, and Lefty
Grove.
The climax of the even
ing came when DiMaggio
was announced as the top
player still alive and then came
the selection of Ruth, the all
time home run champion, as
the greatest of them all, ever.
Mrs. Ruth, who earlier had
accepted an award for the Babe
as a member of the all-time,
all-star team, slowly made her
way to the rostrum and
accepted the top prize from
another authentic American
hero, Frank Borman, the man
who commanded the first
Apollo flight around the moon.
This W’as the lineup of the all
time, all star team chosen by
the writers:
Lou Gehrig, lb; Rogers
Hornsby, 2b, Pie Traymor, 3b;
Honus Wagner, ss; Ty Cob, If;
Joe DiMaggio, cf; Babe Ruth,
rs; Mickey Cochrane, c; Walter
Johnson, right-handed pitcher;
Lefty Grove, left-handed pitch
er and John McGraw, manager.
Greatest Living Players
And these were chosen as the
greatest players still alive:
George Sisler and Stan
Musial, tied for lb; Charlie
Gehringer, 2b; Pie Travnor, 3b;
Joe Cronin, ss; Ted Williams.
If; Joe DiMaggio, cf; Willie
Mays, rs; Bill Dickey, c; Bob
Feller right-handed pitcher;
Lefty Grove left-handed pitcher
and Casey Stengel, manager.
Mays drew one of the
evening’s biggest laughs when
he commented, “Say, isn’t this
something? I only played right
field maybe three or four times
in my entire career. But I know
that center-field belongs to Joe
D. Nobody but him should be
there.”
Stengel topped that when he
ended a swivel-tongued trophy
acceptance speech by saying
grandly, “I wanna thank you
for the honor of making me
what I was.”
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14, 15-Year-old Babe Ruth All-Stars
Griffin’s 14 and 15-year-old Babe Ruth All-Stars will play tonight at
8 o’clock in the first round of the State Tournament at Columbus,
Ga. Members of the District Four championship team are: (Front,
Steve Bozeman, Buster Huckaby, Kenneth Short. Middle row,
■ Tee, Midget
■ Awards Set
: The Griffin Recreation Depa.rt
: ment will present trophies to
winners in the Tee and Midget
: Leagues at a watermelon cutt
' ing to be held Thursday at 6 p.
! m. at City Park.
1 The watermelons will be cut in
' the pavillion beside the tennis
courts.
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Coffey Proves Injury Healed
JOHNSON CITY. Tenn. (UPI)
— While veteran Atlanta Falcon
■fullback Junior Coffey was
proving the knee injury that
kept him out of action last
season had healed Monday,
rookie offensive tackle Robert
Perry suffered a knee injury
doctors say will put him out for
this season.
1-r) Chuck McCarty, Greg Crawford, Glynn Gossett, Darrell Jones
Keith Phillips, Steve Jinks, Donnie Hudson, Gary Mullis, Charles
Buckalew, Kenny Hattaway, Keith Tate. Back row, Buster Smith,
league president, Mike Maddox, H. E. Biles, coach Mark Watkins,
Ted Manolis, Everette Crowford, coach, and Bobby Jones, manager.
Perry, a free agent from East
Tennessee State, was hurt on a
blocking play during the Fal
cons’ first scrimmage since vet
erans reported to camp here.
Alb Star
Lineups
WASHINGTON (UPI) —The
starting lineups for tonight’s
All-Star baseball game:
National League: cf, Alou,
Pitt; ss, Kessinger, Chi; rs,
Aaron, Atl; lb, McCovey, SF;
3b, Santo, Chi; If, Jones, NY; c,
Bench, Cin; 2b, Millan, Atl; p,
Carlton, Stl.
American League: 2b, Carew,
Minn; cf, Jackson, Oak; rs, F.
Robinson, Balt; lb, Powell
Balt; If, Howard, Wash; 3b,
Bando, Oak; ss, Petrocelli,
Bos; c, Freehan, Det; p,.
McLain, Det.
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He walked off the field, but
after doctors examined the in
jury, Perry was taken to a lo
cal hospital and underwent sur
gery, Monday night officials an
nounced that he would likely be
out for the season.
Coffey’s practice Monday
marked the first time the burly
running back has run the ball
against competition since suf
fering the injury last July.
‘‘Junior is all right,” said
Coach Norm Van Brocklin. ‘‘As
a matter of fact, he’s in good
shape. I’m not concerned about
his knee, he’s not concerned
about it and the doctors have
assured me that he’s all right.”
Coffey, Atlanta’s top rusher
in 1966 and 1967, ranked in the
top ten in the National Football
League in both years.
Van Brooklyn said he does
not anticipate any player cuts in
the next few days. After Per
ry’s injury, the roster currently
numbers 90 players and must
be trimmed to 60 by Aug. 1.
Three other players suffered
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Tuesday, July 22,1969
minor injuries Monday after
noon. Running back Jeff Sten
ceil bruised his side; tight end
James Mitchell pulled a leg
muscle; and linebacker Don
Hansen was shaken up.
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