"An Ailing Babe Ruth Demonstrates His Batting Grip To Hank Greenberg, His Successor As Home-Run King" Life Magazine Vol 22 No. 10

Title: "An Ailing Babe Ruth Demonstrates His Batting Grip To Hank Greenberg, His Successor As Home-Run King" Life Magazine Vol 22 No. 10
Rights: Credit LIFE Magazine
Creator: LIFE Magazine
Date: published March 10, 1947
Description: On the left is an older and tired looking Babe Ruth (1895 - 1948) pictured near the end of his life, in what appears to be a robe or smoking jacket and holding a baseball bat. To the Babe's left, and reader's right, is a taller, younger, Hank Greenberg. Hank is holding the bat with his left hand, allowing Ruth to maneuver his hands and demonstrate his batting grip.
Above the men is a caption that reads "AN AILING BABE RUTH DEMONSTRATES HIS BATTING GRIP TO HANK GREENBERG, HIS SUCCESSOR AS HOME-RUN KING".
Babe Ruth hit 714 career home runs in a career ranging from 1914 to 1935, and is widely considered to be one of, if not the greatest baseball player of all time.
Format: PNG image file of the published image.
Language: English.
Publisher: TIME Inc
Contributor: Google Books
Identifier: ISSN 0024-3019
Subject: Hank Greenberg; Babe Ruth; Baseball; LIFE Magazine.
Source: Image downloaded from Google Books on October 28, 2023.; https://books.google.com/books?id=9kkEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA34&pg=PA36#v=onepage&q&f=false

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