Bambino bid farewell with a three-homer salvo

Washington Times ^ | 5-22-06 | Dick Heller

[JZelle]

"The best way to pitch Babe Ruth is to pitch behind him. He has no weaknesses except for [intentional] walks. You have your choice -- one base on four balls or four bases on one ball." -- Waite Hoyt

At 35, right-hander Waite Hoyt was pretty much done and merely hanging on to draw a Depression-era paycheck from the Pittsburgh Pirates. But he and the Bambino had been teammates on the New York Yankees' Murderers' Row teams a decade earlier, so now fellow pitcher Red Lucas was soliciting advice on how to handle the greatest slugger in baseball history before the Pirates played Ruth's Boston Braves at Forbes Field.

[big'ol_freeper]

Are you sure it wasn't a three-bender (alcohol) salvo??

[Museum Twenty]

Very good article. Thank you for posting.