Posted on 08/18/2005 8:16:04 AM PDT by aculeus
HERE'S Babe Ruth's career — covered the way the mainstream media cover the war in Iraq:
A troubled child abandoned by his parents at the age of 7, Ruth was labelled "incorrigible" during his 12 years at St. Mary's Orphanage. His first marriage to waitress Helen Woodford was a failure, compounded by her tragic death in a house fire in 1929.
In his final years, Ruth's dreams of becoming a major league manager were dashed over and over again. After his retirement from baseball, he was reduced to giving talks on radio, at orphanges and in hospitals, and shilling U.S. War Bonds during a conflict in Europe.
Ruth's 22-year career in baseball was punctuated with stories of binge eating and bouts of alcoholism. He died in 1948, after a two-year battle with throat cancer — no doubt the result of his abusive lifesytle.
His lifetime batting average was .342, a 65 percent failure rate at the plate
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Okay?
What a looser. He should have given up but without an exit strategy he was screwed. To bad the govt. didn't help him. (/sarcasm)
ping
pretty clever
He did it without steroids...
Yeah, this is how you do sports PR when the Victim is the most-revered type in society...
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