Babe is the best ever

On April 22, you published a letter in which I commented on the passing of Major League Baseball pitcher Mace Brown and on the game at Pittsburgh on May 25, 1935, when Babe Ruth hit his last three home runs.

I mistakenly believed that MLB’s last legal spitballer, Burleigh Grimes, served up those homers to Ruth, then with the Boston Braves. I have since found out that Charles “Red” Lucas gave up the first two home runs and a single to Ruth. Lucas was relieved in the eighth by Guy Bush who fell victim to the third Ruthian blast.

Surely the Babe went out in a blaze of glory. Some of his records have been and will be broken, but when you take into account Ruth’s overall skills as a pitcher, batter, outfielder and base runner, George Herman Ruth easily qualifies as the greatest baseball player who has ever lived.

Carle G. Gray

Sullivan

Ward jealous of Yanks

In regards to Kent Ward’s column (BDN, Oct. 12-13), it sounds to me and others that there is a lot of jealousy to the New York Yankees.

George Steinbrenner runs a business, a very successful business at that. To have success in business, you have to hire people who you think will help you the most. It doesn’t matter the price you pay them, you still have to perform on the field.

Things do not always go as expected and that’s what makes the baseball business so great. Oh, by the way congratulations to Anaheim and San Francisco!

Now, if the Red Sox want to be as proud of their team as Yankee fans are of theirs, then write a letter to the owners and tell them that they’re not running their business very well.

Steinbrenner and the Yankees have 26 world championships, Boston hasn’t won one since 1918! Enough said!

Ed “Moon” Grant

Brownville

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