Julia Ruth Stevens, right, with her mother, Claire Hodgson Ruth and her adoptive father, Babe Ruth, aboard a cruise ship in the 1930s. “He taught me to bowl, to dance — he was a such a beautiful dancer, he really was — but no, he never played catch with me.”Julia Ruth Stevens with Babe Ruth. Team executives asked, “How can he manage other men when he can’t manage himself?” Mrs. Stevens recalled. Babe Ruth died in 1948 at age 53. “If you say the name Babe Ruth, people know who he is.

Source: Washington Post March 16, 2019 16:59 UTC