Dashboards and Saddlebags the Destination Magazine™ Issue 036 March 2014 | Page 22

Babe Ruth Home Run
Centennial Celebration

FA UAP PAREHA B A OAA A H FARAN MA NA D 7-8, 2014
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h i s y e a r m a r k s t h e 10 0 t h
anniversary of George Herman
Ruth’s first home run, which he
hit during Spring Training at the
fairgrounds back in 1914.

George Herman “Babe” Ruth was born
in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1895. He
was raised in an orphanage because
his parents couldn’t control him. In
1914 he signed a baseball contract with
the Baltimore Orioles. In those days
the Orioles were a minor league team
in the International League.
In March 1914 the team held spring
training in Fayetteville. Ruth was in
Fayetteville for only about a month, but he always remembered it. It was the
first time he had ever been out of Baltimore. Ruth later wrote about how much
fun he had riding the elevators in his hotel.
According to one legend, the young and inexperienced Ruth didn’t know what
to do on his own in Fayetteville, and so he followed around the team’s manager
and owner, Jack Dunn. One of the team members said, “There goes Dunn’s new
babe,” and the name stuck.

Vintage Baseball Game
Free Event March 8 at 11:00am

Catch Fayetteville Baseball Fever by attending
two Vintage Base Ball games at Arnette Park.
Vintage Base Ball is baseball played by the rules
and customs of the 19th century. These games
will follow the 1864 rules as adopted by the
National Association of Base-ball Players, whic