Paid to play just the first game of a double-header, which the Cubans won 6 to 1, Ruth took to the plate between games to give the ticket holders a bit more bang for their buck. No civic dignitaries, not even an alderman, could be observed in the crowd.” “ The spectators seemed to sense they were watching something pathetic…There were neither newsreel nor still cameras in evidence and no telegraph keys clattered brassily in the press box, which had less than half a dozen occupants. The game, for which Ruth was paid three thousand dollars, would be one of his last.Īmid the sea of fans, one lone reporter, Tom Meany of the New York Telegram, realized the tragedy unfolding before his very eyes. The price: Fifty-five cents for the grandstands and $1.10 for the big spenders in the box seats. That sunny afternoon an estimated 10,000 fans came to the 4,600 seat Dyckman Oval to see their hero play on a team of former all stars and minor leaguers in an exhibition game against the New York Cubans of the old Negro League. Years of hard living and several automobile accidents had taken their toll, but the Babe could still draw a crowd-and the racially diverse spectators at the Dyckman Oval were his kind of people. The Sultan of Swat, the King of Swing, the Colossus Of Crash had seen better days. Babe Ruth, the Bambino, was reveling in the twilight of his fame. Babe Ruth exhibition game at the Dyckman Oval, New York Amsterdam News, October 5, 1935.
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