"Pete is just getting along in years
"Even the shattering of the bottle of wine against the ship and the cheering of the crowd as she slid down the ways could be clearly heard
including at this Bowery water hole at the turn of the century
The photo appeared on the front page of The Times and other newspapers around the world on February 26
" But as The TImes reported in 1986
The Babe color-blue "Pete is just getting alongHe was the Babe, the Bambino, the Sultan of Swat. The great Yankee slugger George Herman Ruth was also a legend in his own time, with a personality and appetite as large as his home runs. "I swing big, with everything I've got," said the man who, by himself, hit more homers in a single season (1920) than any one team. "I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can." The Bambino was famous for saying, "Every strike brings me closer to the