He was a white man passing as a WHITE MAN!!! One star. 
Babe Ruth was a Black man PASSING FOR WHITE?
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???? I’ve read that he went out of his way to befriend Black athletes and play Black baseball teams
- According to Ruth’s family and baseball historian Bill Jenkinson, Ruth wanted to be a baseball manager after he retired. But he “didn’t get the job because Landis knew that, if hired as manager, Ruth would have openly supported signing black ballplayers.” Ruth never became a manager and his daughter said he was denied his dream because he supported letting black players enter the majors. As late as 2014, Ruth’s adopted daughter, Julia Ruth Stevens, told the New York Times that her father was blackballed from becoming a major league manager after his retirement because it was feared that he would lobby for players of color. “Daddy would have had blacks on his team,” said Stevens, who lived to age 102.
Mister Terrific
It’s in the name
Ruth? He was for integration and regularly did tours playing negro league towns
“In a photo from 1925, Babe Ruth poses with African American fans, highlighting a lesser-known side of the legendary baseball player. According to baseball historian Bill Jenkinson, Ruth was not racist and took a stand against segregation in sports. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he chose to play games against Negro League teams in the late 1920s, a period when most white players and teams refused such interactions.
Ruth didn’t just play; he actively engaged with black players, sitting with them in dugouts, socializing before and after games, and mingling in segregated stands. He scheduled games in locations where interracial competition was not only against social norms but also illegal.
Julia Ruth Stevens, Babe Ruth’s daughter, believes that her father’s appreciation for black players likely hurt his chances of becoming a manager for a Major League Baseball team in the years before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. Ruth’s actions, while not widely publicized, reflect his progressive stance and respect for all players, regardless of race.”
He was an orphan that came from nothing
Yaboysix
That nikka
Dirty CRACKAS!???? I’ve read that he went out of his way to befriend Black athletes and play Black baseball teams
- According to Ruth’s family and baseball historian Bill Jenkinson, Ruth wanted to be a baseball manager after he retired. But he “didn’t get the job because Landis knew that, if hired as manager, Ruth would have openly supported signing black ballplayers.” Ruth never became a manager and his daughter said he was denied his dream because he supported letting black players enter the majors. As late as 2014, Ruth’s adopted daughter, Julia Ruth Stevens, told the New York Times that her father was blackballed from becoming a major league manager after his retirement because it was feared that he would lobby for players of color. “Daddy would have had blacks on his team,” said Stevens, who lived to age 102.
The hell they so afraid of Blacks playing their sports for?
he also dated black women and spent alot of time at the cotton club in harlem, was also good friends with bumpy johnson
A watch which marked the friendship between Babe Ruth and a notorious gangster will hit the auction block in New York.
The pocket watch was a gift from the baseball star to Ellsworth Raymond ‘Bumpy’ Johnson, a petty criminal who rose to become a crime boss known as the ‘Al Capone of Harlem’.
The 18k gold Cartier timepiece was evidently a Christmas gift from Ruth, and bears the engraved inscription "To Bumpy from Babe, Dec 25th, 1937".
A watch which marked the friendship between Babe Ruth and a notorious gangster will hit the auction block in New York.
The pocket watch was a gift from the baseball star to Ellsworth Raymond ‘Bumpy’ Johnson, a petty criminal who rose to become a crime boss known as the ‘Al Capone of Harlem’.
The 18k gold Cartier timepiece was evidently a Christmas gift from Ruth, and bears the engraved inscription "To Bumpy from Babe, Dec 25th, 1937".
He once said the best player he ever saw, mlb or not, was Pop Lloyd
Them nikkaz fly as a MFer.
you can tell ol boy in the middle with his hand out, get on that moonshine and start talkin bout yo mami
