NYT: Yankees Have Yet to Honor Ruth

Yesterday’s New York Times featured a story by Richard Sandomir about Babe Ruth’s granddaughter Linda Ruth Tosseti and her dismay over the Yankees’ failure to honor Babe Ruth during the Stadium’s final season.

“Tosetti is a short, feisty, loquacious descendant of Ruth’s; her resemblance to her grandfather is centered in her miniature version of the Babe’s broad, flat nose.

“With this face,” she said with a chuckle, “you’re never low-key in a room.” Her passion to preserve, and even elevate, the memory of her grandfather has been focused on three areas: an Internet campaign to retire Ruth’s No. 3 throughout major league baseball; to persuade the Yankees not to raze Yankee Stadium; and to honor Ruth in a special, exceptional way, as the foundation star of the franchise and the name underlying the stadium’s title, the House That Ruth Built.

Tosetti has not succeeded on any of her missions, but is most puzzled that the Yankees have gone through the first five months of the season without a celebration for Ruth.”

Read the full article here.

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