[933] in Humor
HUMOR: Details, details
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew A. Bennett)
Thu Jun 15 15:31:35 1995
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 15:26:14 EDT
From: "Andrew A. Bennett" <abennett@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 1995 17:17:19 +0000 (GMT)
From: Espacionaute Spiff domine! <MATOSSIAN@aries.colorado.edu>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 1995 20:05:08 -0400
From: bostic@CS.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Bostic)
Forwarded-by: joeha@microsoft.com
This item comes by way of Jon Kark:
Baltimore, Maryland:
Experts checked just about every detail concerning the Babe Ruth statue
at the entrance to Baltimore Oriole Park at Camden Yards. They debated
whether Ruth wore his belt buckle on the left side or right side and
whether his hat was cocked to the side or straight. They double-checked
the proper size of his belt loops. But one fact escaped scrutiny.
The bronze nine-foot, 800-pound Babe is clutching on his hip a
right-handed fielder's glove. The real Babe was a lefty. Batted left.
Threw left. Was even called Lefty as a kid.
Artist Susan Leury, who admits to "not being very astute in the fine
points of sports," told the Baltimore Sun that she worked with a vintage
glove sent by the Babe Ruth Museum. Museum Director Mike Gibbons said
the glove was used in lieu of a real one because Ruth's equipment is too
valuable to lend. By the time the error was caught, it was too late.
"It was nine feet tall and in the foundry and ready to go, and I looked
at it and said, 'Oh, well,'" Leury said.
