Da Babe

According to this morning's paper, today is the anniversary of Babe Ruth's death in 1948.

This is what Time magazine had to say 62 years ago about the Babe's death. Time's trademark snarky cynicism is a little hard to take but what facts they print are interesting. A funeral Mass at St Patrick's presided over by Cardinal Spellman. Pallbearers included Governor Dewey of New York, Mayor O'Dwyer of New York City and Mayor Curley of Boston. "A beautiful death" said the priest who annointed him.