Exhibit, Babe Ruth Museum

ID: 1950 ~ Source: ~ Creator: Jim Capaldi ~ Date: 2013 April 28
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Exhibit, Babe Ruth Museum

Exhibit display case shows the history of the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum, originally known as the Babe Ruth Shrine.

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By Eli Pousson
On February 6, 1968, the city paid $1,850 to buy four vacant, vandalized rowhouses on Emory Street鈥攁n unusual birthday celebration for famed Baltimore native Babe Ruth. Exactly seventy-three years earlier, George Herman 鈥淏abe鈥� Ruth, Jr. was born at鈥�