But despite the efforts of today's "locavores" (who eat only locally produced foods), the pre-modern world of Babe the pig frolicking about the family farm is long gone.
"The King"--at 73 still swaggering in his cowboy hat, sunglasses, skinny jeans and mustache--is a living legend, the Babe Ruth of the oval.
It is decorated with memorabilia, including the transfer papers from when the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees.
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At 18, I was still a babe in the woods, unaware of how much the big wide world would change me.
Babe saves the day, though, just as he does throughout the film.
Babe, the extraordinarily polite pig with the sweetly persistent manner, tries to raise money in the great megalopolis for the ailing Hoggett farm.
Ankiel is among four players in major league history to make at least 40 starts as a pitcher and hit 40 homers, with Babe Ruth the standout of that group.
McDull himself is a pug-nosed little porker with a big brown eye, a feature inherited from his mother, and he sounds rather like a Cantonese version of Babe, the movie pig who thought he was a sheep-dog.
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The Babe was obviously a magnificent distraction, but seeing the way fans have stood by the game even during all the recent ugly revelations, I wonder if one player really did matter.
And suddenly he faced an unsightly end akin to the Babe's final, punchless and abbreviated year with the Boston Braves.
It's part of the folklore that after the Black Sox World Series fix of 1919, Babe Ruth saved the game.
The Red Sox haven't won the World Series since 1918, a year before they sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees.
The Babe Ruth trade may be a distant memory but players rarely move directly between the Red Sox and Yankees - and likewise with United and Liverpool, with Phil Chisnall the last player to do so in 1964.
The laughs that followed faded out when Babe Ruth wandered in and sat among the other legends, grinning Babe Ruth's grin.
If the Boston Red Sox suffered through the Curse of the Bambino--an 86-year championship drought attributed to their sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees--call the Mets' whammy the Curse of the Straw Man.
But by 1934, when Babe Ruth (Beibu Rusu) barnstormed in Japan, Eiji Sawamura, a high schooler struck out the Babe, Lou Gehrig and other all-stars.
The Tri-Valley Babe Ruth All-Stars beat the same team they lost the title to in 2009, Tallahassee.
Tough to top the Babe, but Albert still has time on his side.
They toured the ballpark, saw Babe Ruth's jersey, the real thing.
The Babe Ruth League's Cal Ripken division allows composite youth bats.
So don't go to "Once" expecting to see knock-'em-dead production numbers belted out by a platinum-blond babe backed by the Rockettes and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
No matter that the Babe's lifetime total of 714 home runs, once a record, has been pushed down to No. 3 all-time by Aaron and Bonds.
While the electrifying atmosphere and exuberant cheers will overwhelm even the most ardent of fans, many will unintentionally forget the significance of October 1st when it comes to the illustrious history of the New York Yankees. 50 years ago from this upcoming Saturday Roger Maris triumphed over countless adversities and surpassed Babe Ruth as the single season home run champion.
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Even though Larkin only received 51.6% of the vote in his first year of eligibility (2010), many were of the opinion that he would join the ranks of Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson and the other icons of the sport sooner rather than later.
The "Bambino" in question was baseball legend Babe Ruth - sold by the Red Sox owners to their bitter rivals, the New York Yankees, in 1920.
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