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BABE RUTH’S FAMILY TO ATTEND

HALL’S  75TH BIRTHDAY PARTY

Ten Baseball Hall of Famers pose outside the museum in Cooperstown, June 12, 1939. Front row; Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Cy Young. Back row: Honus Wagner, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Tris Speaker, Napoleon Lajoie, George Sisler and Walter Johnson.
Ten Baseball Hall of Famers pose outside the museum in Cooperstown, June 12, 1939. Front row; Eddie Collins, Babe Ruth, Connie Mack, Cy Young. Back row: Honus Wagner, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Tris Speaker, Napoleon Lajoie, George Sisler and Walter Johnson.

COOPERSTOWN – Seventy-five years after Babe Ruth stood on the steps of the Baseball Hall of Fame and waved to the gathered crowd, his family will return to Cooperstown to celebrate his legacy as part of the Hall of Fame’s 75th Anniversary Celebration on Thursday, June 12.

The festivities will kick off at 11 a.m. on the steps of the Hall, with Hall of Famers Joe Morgan and Cal Ripkin Jr., as well as board Chairman Jane Forbes Clark and President Jeff Idelson leading the crowd in singing “Happy Birthday,” complete with cake.

At 1 p.m. Homer Osterhoudt, Howard Talbot and Catherine Walker will share their memories of that first induction, and the museum will launch two virtual photo galleries featuring highlights from several museum exhibits.

On Friday, June 13, the museum will debut their newest exhibit, “Babe Ruth: His Life and Legend,” featuring artifacts, movie footage and never-before-seen ephemera from the history of the Bambino.

That evening, Morgan and Ripken will be part of a “Voices of the Game” program celebrating their legacy.

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