October 20, 2025 • 17 mins
In this episode of The Adventures of Babe Ruth, the Bambino faces one of his toughest opponents — not a pitcher, but an umpire. When a long-simmering feud between Babe Ruth and umpire Tim Daly boils over during a crucial late-season game, tempers flare, fans riot, and the “Sultan of Swat” finds himself caught between pride and responsibility. What follows is a tale of sportsmanship, humility, and redemption — told with the flair and energy that made this U.S. Navy–produced series a hit among young listeners.
Though inspired by real headlines, Feud with Tim Daly is pure radio fiction — a dramatized look at the legend of Ruth as a moral hero and ambassador for the game. The episode captures the spirit of baseball’s golden age, where the crack of the bat echoed alongside lessons in fairness and self-control.
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Though inspired by real headlines, Feud with Tim Daly is pure radio fiction — a dramatized look at the legend of Ruth as a moral hero and ambassador for the game. The episode captures the spirit of baseball’s golden age, where the crack of the bat echoed alongside lessons in fairness and self-control.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you, Adam Graham.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The very same? And this is my old time radio
snack wagon.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio snack Wagon, where we
serve up a bite sized portion of old time radio.
And now here's your snack wagon host Adam Graham.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Today's snack is a little sneaky. It's a peace of
fection about a real person dressed up as a true
life account. But as we're deep into baseball's postseason, it
seemed appropriate to play another adventure of Babe Ruth, the
man for whom the postseason MVP Award is named. And
(00:50):
here is today's episode.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Feud with Tim Daily, Layball, Way Ball with Babe Rufe.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Pay Paul with the Navy. The United States Navy brings
you the adventure yourself.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Babe Ruth.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm here to tell you about the immortal Babe is
the man who knew him so well, his pile, the
popular sports reporter Steve Martin. The long smoldering feud between
Tim Daily, the umpire and Babe Ruth was bound to
explode sometime, and when it did, the riot was heard
(01:35):
round the world, and Daily and the big fellow faced death.
We'll bring you the exciting story in just a moment,
but first a highly important message from Jackson Beck. Come
in Jack, okay, Steve, and thanks. Before Steve Martin gets
started with this adventure of Babe Ruth, I'd just like
to ask every young fellow listening a very practical, down
to worth question. What are you getting out of life?
(01:55):
Making money, got a lot of friends and an interesting,
satisfying job with the future, a chance for advancement, a
retirement plan at a relatively early age. If you haven't
got all those things, you should be extremely interested in
what the United States Navy offers as a career. First
of all, as a Navy man, you'll be part of
the greatest fleet in the world. You'll have an interesting
job with a chance to become a really valuable specialist
(02:18):
in any one of the many Navy skills because it'll
be taught you to perfection. You'll have a chance for
rapid advancement or the Navy believes in helping good men
rise to the top.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
And your Navy pay is always there. It's security.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And when you remember that the Navy also feeds and
clothes and houses you and pays your doctor bills, it's
more security.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Than you can get in civilian life and.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Its security for a long time to come, or under
the Navy's liberal retirement plan, you can retire after a
few short years and have a guaranteed life income. So
if you are over seventeen and not getting what the
Navy offers, it's only good sense to think about the
Navy as a career.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
You will find that the officer in charge of your
local U. S.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Navy recruiting office is a friendly man ready to help
you solve your problem. Why not see him right away?
Now back to Steve Martin and the Adventurers of Babe Rue.
The Yankees and Detroit Tigers were in a dogfight for
(03:21):
the pennant, and when they opened a crucial series in
New York, the players and fans were in the lather.
Tim Daily, the ex pitcher, was umpiring behind the plate,
And when he called a sourur third strike on the
Babe and the fifth inning and killed a Yankee rally,
the big fella threw his cap on a proud eye.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Tim.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That picture was six inches wide. It was right over,
It was way outside, way out here. What are you
trying to.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Do to me? I call it a swipe.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I quit beef, and Big shot and beat not before
I give you the name of my eye dog.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
I said, get calling, babe. I'm not taking any lift
off you.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's about time.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I gave you some. You've been calling them against me
all along, and I know why.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You can't forget how they got and swam.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
You can't talk that way me out of feel. You're
out of the game.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
They the first time in two years you've been thrown
out of a game. You have to pick today. The
Yanks might have won if you stayed in. No other
umpire would have tossed me out for what I said, Steve.
But Tim Daly has been gunning for me for a
long time. I used to pin his ears back when
he pitched against me. You know, Yes, I know.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And he's never forgiven me for hitting that home run
off him in the ninth inning a couple of years ago.
He had a no hitter working up to then. Yes,
I remember.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So you figure he's calling them sorrow on you because
of that, Huh, I know he is. Can I quote
you on that, bab Oh No, of course not. I'd
sound like an alibi artist. But I'll tell you this, Steve,
this series with Detroit might mean the pennant, and if
Tim Daily calls him wrong on me again, there's going
to be trouble.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
The Big Fellow wasn't fooling.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
The trouble came the next afternoon, but not quite the
way he figured it. The fans were plenty sore at
Tim Daily for tossing their swat king off the premises
the day before, and the minute Tim came on a
field they opened up on him way.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Way.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The fans kept riding Daily, but he was on firing
at first plase this time, and he didn't really set
them off until the evening when the blowoff came. The
Yankees were trailing two to one when after two out
soul single, the Big Color came up then and blasted
the first pitch far out into the lower right field stands.
(05:29):
He was up against the steel girder with a white
spipe on it that marked the cow line. The Big
Fellow started the trot around the bases while the crowd
went crazy, but just as he came to first base,
Tim Bailey rushed to him and waved him back.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Daily was yelling and it was a poul ball. Oh
I had a jam, I said, it was a foul ball.
Hit the Garner knitch a file side of the white
line and need you on a foul time? You mean
you could see that inch from here from over three
hundred feet a whim?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Sure, I saw the file back up there and hit
Why are you dirty?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Robbery? You're you're out of the game. That didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
The fans went completely haywire and began throwing everything that glared.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Their hands on it.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Tim Daily, Steve, cushions, hats, fruit pop bottles came flying.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Out on the field.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I saw one of the bottles hit Daily on the head,
but he kept walking until he came to the Yankee bench.
Then he keeled over into the dugout.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
How stim Daily, Steve? Where's he? The trainer's patching him up. Baby.
He's got a nasty cut, but it's nothing serious. Don't
go near him though.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
He's raving mad at you. He blames you for what happened. Oh,
he's right, it was my fault, your fault. What are
you talking about, Steve? I just saw two boys were
sitting near that girder. They say the ball hit on
the foul side of the stripe, just like Tim said.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
As you'll find plenty of others who swear it hit
fair though, maybe Steve.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But if some say it landed foul, then Tim's entitled
to call it either way, and I should have taken it.
The umpire's boss on the field. I took advantage of
my big name though, to start a small sized ride.
Now you know when that happens to an umpire, Steve,
But when he loses control, he gets.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
The gate fan.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Now, look, babe, don't tell me you care if Tim
Daily loses his job, not half the way he treated you.
He'll call me a sucker if you want, Steve. But
this started as a private scrap between Tim and me.
Now it's me plus one hundred thousand fans against Tim Steve.
I'm worried about what's going to happen tomorrow because unless
I'm dead wrong, plenty is gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
The big fellow called the turn again.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Plenty happened the next day, and it started happening the
minute the umpires walked out on the field to start
the game. Tim Daily adh'es a plaster on his head,
brought up the rear crowd start a taboo, and then
some leave along plan and the stands behind Third Days
started the woolf poul and pretty soon everybody. He took
(08:00):
it up.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Tim Bailey had guts. I'll set that for him. He
stood his brown and motioned the other umpires to get
the game started.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The players started out on the field. They turned fast
and went back to their dugouts. When the barrage started
out of the sands like hail, rotten eggs, tomatoes, cabbagers,
and more pop bottles. In a moment, the field was
a mess, and that chant kept on. I worked my
way down on the field to where Babe and philol
Miller manager Huggins were standing near a home plate.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
When I reached the plate, the big Fellow was saying,
I gotta stop this hug before somebody gets killed.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
How can you stop at babe? Oh, these fans are
my friends. If I go into the stands fans, are you.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Nuts, babe? Why you'll get burned?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I won't. There's a couple of jerks up there behind
third base you're seeing to be the ringmaders.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I'm gonna shut.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Them up the rest for me. No, Babe, paye pa careright, don't.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Houg and I try to grab the big fellow and
stop him, but he shook us off and started climbing
into the boxes behind third base.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Hug grabbed the bat and gave me one, and then
we jumped in after him.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The crowd getting a little quieter, and how made a
path of the big fellow as he pushed through.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Why much a.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Sports you are sixty eight thousand, I guess, flat top
cor shit roll beat on your head? Hurt. A couple
of hotheads tried to stop the big fellow, but he
threw them aside with one swing of his shoulders and
kept on going until he reached two tough looking guys,
the ones he'd picked is the ring leaders are the mob.
(09:39):
Most of the fans now had stopped throwing stuff, but
these two tufts kept digging into big sacks they had
and coming up with eggs and bottles and even rocks which.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
They were heaving down Tall tim Dale. Oh okay, okay,
you've had your fun. I'll pick up your marble and
scrap his me. Go on, I'll get gone, big shot.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Huh, it's you come on, daddy, let him.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Way look out. I got nine come on before Hugg
and I convic him.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The big fellow, hamming both knife artists to their knees,
and then the park cops got there, the hands went
cheering the big fellow and now like crazy, he started
the plate, holding up his hands until they quieted down. Okay, okay,
(10:32):
We've had our fun. Now let's play ball, and the
first guy who lets her to peep at the boss,
Tim Daily has to fight me. The Yankees won that
Bowl game, but in the clubhouse afterwards, the player's bawl
(10:53):
the Big Fellow have all of price suckers I ever saw. Babe,
you're the champ. You risk your life to say save.
Tim Daily is hiding his job after the way he's
been treating you. Hold it YouTube umpires aren't allowed on
the players quarters. Tim beat it and not till I
say my piece. Babe, you went into the stands today
(11:14):
in uniform I bought with a fan. That cause for
an automatic fine and suspended. Wait wait a man at
you guys, So I'm fined and suspended. Tim, you ought
to be your big ape, but well look, babe, I
wasn't giving you the close ones.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
You should have let me take it to day instead
of instead of doing what you did. Pretty swell guy,
and the well, don't get the idea.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I got soft and I'm gonna call him special for you,
because I ate that's the way I wanted, Just so
you know that's all. Wait a minute, Tim, Wow, you
forgot to shake hands.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Tough guy. Well okay, but make it snappy. I'm not
supposed to be it there.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Well, Steve Martin, thanks very much for a very exciting
adventure of Bay Brute here is certainly welcome. Jack, And
thanks to you for what you said about the Navy
at the beginning of the show. I've got a lot
more Steve. For instance, I didn't mention the thing you
really know about the adventure and the fun of life
in the navy.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Adventure.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Where else in all the world can a young fellow
find adventure to compare with what is almost routine in
the navy.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Think of the places you go, the things you see
and do.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Egypt and the Pyramids, Shanghai's famous Boon, the Leading Tower
of Pisa, and the majesty of the Thames and London Bridge,
the gaiety and beauty of Paris, and all of the
other colorful ports navy men visit.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
And a navy man just doesn't see those places from
the deck of a ship either. He has show.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Even almost every poet with money in his pocket and
good companions at his side.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Oh, Jack, don't tell me about adventure in the navy.
What about it? Fellows?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Are you fed up with life at home where nothing
seems to happen. You want financial security, a chance for advancement,
Want to be thoroughly trained in one of the Navy's
valuable skills. Want to be able to retire with a
lifetime income. All right, then think of the Navy as
a career. If you're over seventeen, you really ought to
(13:30):
find out about how you can be a part.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Of this great Navy crew.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Contact your local Navy recruiting officer immediately. He'll give you
all the details. Now, Steve, what's on tap for next week? Well, Zack,
the Big Fellow liked a joke as well as anybody,
but once what's tarted out to be an innocent gag
(13:56):
backfired into a near tragedy with the wildest results you
can managin.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I want to tell you all about it next week.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The Adventures of Babe Bruce is written by Ben Peter Freeman,
produced by Woody Close, directed by Ronald Dawson, and presented
by the United States Navy.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Welcome Back, a fun story and as I said at
the start, it's totally fiction, but this may be the
one that is furthest from Ruth on field exploits, which
included many confrontations with umpires and no resolution that was
near this magnanimous. It has to be said that when
(15:24):
the Babe started playing, the game was still quite wild
and occasionally raucous, and Ruth had more than his share
in that, including an incident with the Red Sox in
nineteen seventeen when Ruth was twenty two and punched an
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umpire after walking the first batter. Ironically, this would become
a combined no hitter. As another picture, Ernie Shore came
in and retired all twenty six batters he faced in
the Runner, the Baby Aloud got thrown out. Yet over
time the game changed and the Babe changed with it.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He didn't live a very long time after his playing days.
He lived more than a decade and became an elder
statesman in the sport and a great ambassador for the game.
So this episode reflects less who Babe was when he played,
but who he would become, as well as the writer's
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aspiration for the character of young listeners to the program,
as well as the long term character of the great
National Game. It's time for me to close up the
Old snack Wagon, but don't worry. We'll be back with
another serving of old time radio goodness before you know it.
(16:50):
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you can feast away at my website at Great Detectives
dot net. Your emails are also welcome at Adam at
snackwagon dot net.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
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(17:23):
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been the Old Time Radio Snackwagon.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Until next time. Goodbye,
Are you, Adam Graham.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The very same? And this is my old time radio
snack wagon.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Welcome to the Old Time Radio snack Wagon, where we
serve up a bite sized portion of old time radio.
And now here's your snack wagon host Adam Graham.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Today's snack is a little sneaky. It's a peace of
fection about a real person dressed up as a true
life account. But as we're deep into baseball's postseason, it
seemed appropriate to play another adventure of Babe Ruth, the
man for whom the postseason MVP Award is named. And
(00:50):
here is today's episode.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Feud with Tim Daily, Layball, Way Ball with Babe Rufe.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Pay Paul with the Navy. The United States Navy brings
you the adventure yourself.
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Babe Ruth.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
I'm here to tell you about the immortal Babe is
the man who knew him so well, his pile, the
popular sports reporter Steve Martin. The long smoldering feud between
Tim Daily, the umpire and Babe Ruth was bound to
explode sometime, and when it did, the riot was heard
(01:35):
round the world, and Daily and the big fellow faced death.
We'll bring you the exciting story in just a moment,
but first a highly important message from Jackson Beck. Come
in Jack, okay, Steve, and thanks. Before Steve Martin gets
started with this adventure of Babe Ruth, I'd just like
to ask every young fellow listening a very practical, down
to worth question. What are you getting out of life?
(01:55):
Making money, got a lot of friends and an interesting,
satisfying job with the future, a chance for advancement, a
retirement plan at a relatively early age. If you haven't
got all those things, you should be extremely interested in
what the United States Navy offers as a career. First
of all, as a Navy man, you'll be part of
the greatest fleet in the world. You'll have an interesting
job with a chance to become a really valuable specialist
(02:18):
in any one of the many Navy skills because it'll
be taught you to perfection. You'll have a chance for
rapid advancement or the Navy believes in helping good men
rise to the top.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
And your Navy pay is always there. It's security.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
And when you remember that the Navy also feeds and
clothes and houses you and pays your doctor bills, it's
more security.
Speaker 5 (02:38):
Than you can get in civilian life and.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Its security for a long time to come, or under
the Navy's liberal retirement plan, you can retire after a
few short years and have a guaranteed life income. So
if you are over seventeen and not getting what the
Navy offers, it's only good sense to think about the
Navy as a career.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
You will find that the officer in charge of your
local U. S.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Navy recruiting office is a friendly man ready to help
you solve your problem. Why not see him right away?
Now back to Steve Martin and the Adventurers of Babe Rue.
The Yankees and Detroit Tigers were in a dogfight for
(03:21):
the pennant, and when they opened a crucial series in
New York, the players and fans were in the lather.
Tim Daily, the ex pitcher, was umpiring behind the plate,
And when he called a sourur third strike on the
Babe and the fifth inning and killed a Yankee rally,
the big fella threw his cap on a proud eye.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Tim.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
That picture was six inches wide. It was right over,
It was way outside, way out here. What are you
trying to.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Do to me? I call it a swipe.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I quit beef, and Big shot and beat not before
I give you the name of my eye dog.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
I said, get calling, babe. I'm not taking any lift
off you.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
That's about time.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
I gave you some. You've been calling them against me
all along, and I know why.
Speaker 1 (03:55):
You can't forget how they got and swam.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
You can't talk that way me out of feel. You're
out of the game.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
They the first time in two years you've been thrown
out of a game. You have to pick today. The
Yanks might have won if you stayed in. No other
umpire would have tossed me out for what I said, Steve.
But Tim Daly has been gunning for me for a
long time. I used to pin his ears back when
he pitched against me. You know, Yes, I know.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And he's never forgiven me for hitting that home run
off him in the ninth inning a couple of years ago.
He had a no hitter working up to then. Yes,
I remember.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
So you figure he's calling them sorrow on you because
of that, Huh, I know he is. Can I quote
you on that, bab Oh No, of course not. I'd
sound like an alibi artist. But I'll tell you this, Steve,
this series with Detroit might mean the pennant, and if
Tim Daily calls him wrong on me again, there's going
to be trouble.
Speaker 5 (04:48):
The Big Fellow wasn't fooling.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
The trouble came the next afternoon, but not quite the
way he figured it. The fans were plenty sore at
Tim Daily for tossing their swat king off the premises
the day before, and the minute Tim came on a
field they opened up on him way.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Way.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
The fans kept riding Daily, but he was on firing
at first plase this time, and he didn't really set
them off until the evening when the blowoff came. The
Yankees were trailing two to one when after two out
soul single, the Big Color came up then and blasted
the first pitch far out into the lower right field stands.
(05:29):
He was up against the steel girder with a white
spipe on it that marked the cow line. The Big
Fellow started the trot around the bases while the crowd
went crazy, but just as he came to first base,
Tim Bailey rushed to him and waved him back.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Daily was yelling and it was a poul ball. Oh
I had a jam, I said, it was a foul ball.
Hit the Garner knitch a file side of the white
line and need you on a foul time? You mean
you could see that inch from here from over three
hundred feet a whim?
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Sure, I saw the file back up there and hit
Why are you dirty?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Robbery? You're you're out of the game. That didn't.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
The fans went completely haywire and began throwing everything that glared.
Speaker 5 (06:12):
Their hands on it.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Tim Daily, Steve, cushions, hats, fruit pop bottles came flying.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
Out on the field.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I saw one of the bottles hit Daily on the head,
but he kept walking until he came to the Yankee bench.
Then he keeled over into the dugout.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
How stim Daily, Steve? Where's he? The trainer's patching him up. Baby.
He's got a nasty cut, but it's nothing serious. Don't
go near him though.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
He's raving mad at you. He blames you for what happened. Oh,
he's right, it was my fault, your fault. What are
you talking about, Steve? I just saw two boys were
sitting near that girder. They say the ball hit on
the foul side of the stripe, just like Tim said.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
As you'll find plenty of others who swear it hit
fair though, maybe Steve.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
But if some say it landed foul, then Tim's entitled
to call it either way, and I should have taken it.
The umpire's boss on the field. I took advantage of
my big name though, to start a small sized ride.
Now you know when that happens to an umpire, Steve,
But when he loses control, he gets.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
The gate fan.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Now, look, babe, don't tell me you care if Tim
Daily loses his job, not half the way he treated you.
He'll call me a sucker if you want, Steve. But
this started as a private scrap between Tim and me.
Now it's me plus one hundred thousand fans against Tim Steve.
I'm worried about what's going to happen tomorrow because unless
I'm dead wrong, plenty is gonna happen.
Speaker 5 (07:36):
The big fellow called the turn again.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Plenty happened the next day, and it started happening the
minute the umpires walked out on the field to start
the game. Tim Daily adh'es a plaster on his head,
brought up the rear crowd start a taboo, and then
some leave along plan and the stands behind Third Days
started the woolf poul and pretty soon everybody. He took
(08:00):
it up.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Tim Bailey had guts. I'll set that for him. He
stood his brown and motioned the other umpires to get
the game started.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
The players started out on the field. They turned fast
and went back to their dugouts. When the barrage started
out of the sands like hail, rotten eggs, tomatoes, cabbagers,
and more pop bottles. In a moment, the field was
a mess, and that chant kept on. I worked my
way down on the field to where Babe and philol
Miller manager Huggins were standing near a home plate.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
When I reached the plate, the big Fellow was saying,
I gotta stop this hug before somebody gets killed.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
How can you stop at babe? Oh, these fans are
my friends. If I go into the stands fans, are you.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Nuts, babe? Why you'll get burned?
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (08:50):
I won't. There's a couple of jerks up there behind
third base you're seeing to be the ringmaders.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
I'm gonna shut.
Speaker 5 (08:55):
Them up the rest for me. No, Babe, paye pa careright, don't.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Houg and I try to grab the big fellow and
stop him, but he shook us off and started climbing
into the boxes behind third base.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Hug grabbed the bat and gave me one, and then
we jumped in after him.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
The crowd getting a little quieter, and how made a
path of the big fellow as he pushed through.
Speaker 5 (09:17):
Why much a.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Sports you are sixty eight thousand, I guess, flat top
cor shit roll beat on your head? Hurt. A couple
of hotheads tried to stop the big fellow, but he
threw them aside with one swing of his shoulders and
kept on going until he reached two tough looking guys,
the ones he'd picked is the ring leaders are the mob.
(09:39):
Most of the fans now had stopped throwing stuff, but
these two tufts kept digging into big sacks they had
and coming up with eggs and bottles and even rocks which.
Speaker 5 (09:47):
They were heaving down Tall tim Dale. Oh okay, okay,
you've had your fun. I'll pick up your marble and
scrap his me. Go on, I'll get gone, big shot.
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Huh, it's you come on, daddy, let him.
Speaker 5 (10:03):
Way look out. I got nine come on before Hugg
and I convic him.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
The big fellow, hamming both knife artists to their knees,
and then the park cops got there, the hands went
cheering the big fellow and now like crazy, he started
the plate, holding up his hands until they quieted down. Okay, okay,
(10:32):
We've had our fun. Now let's play ball, and the
first guy who lets her to peep at the boss,
Tim Daily has to fight me. The Yankees won that
Bowl game, but in the clubhouse afterwards, the player's bawl
(10:53):
the Big Fellow have all of price suckers I ever saw. Babe,
you're the champ. You risk your life to say save.
Tim Daily is hiding his job after the way he's
been treating you. Hold it YouTube umpires aren't allowed on
the players quarters. Tim beat it and not till I
say my piece. Babe, you went into the stands today
(11:14):
in uniform I bought with a fan. That cause for
an automatic fine and suspended. Wait wait a man at
you guys, So I'm fined and suspended. Tim, you ought
to be your big ape, but well look, babe, I
wasn't giving you the close ones.
Speaker 5 (11:32):
You should have let me take it to day instead
of instead of doing what you did. Pretty swell guy,
and the well, don't get the idea.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I got soft and I'm gonna call him special for you,
because I ate that's the way I wanted, Just so
you know that's all. Wait a minute, Tim, Wow, you
forgot to shake hands.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
Tough guy. Well okay, but make it snappy. I'm not
supposed to be it there.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Well, Steve Martin, thanks very much for a very exciting
adventure of Bay Brute here is certainly welcome. Jack, And
thanks to you for what you said about the Navy
at the beginning of the show. I've got a lot
more Steve. For instance, I didn't mention the thing you
really know about the adventure and the fun of life
in the navy.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Adventure.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
Where else in all the world can a young fellow
find adventure to compare with what is almost routine in
the navy.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Think of the places you go, the things you see
and do.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Egypt and the Pyramids, Shanghai's famous Boon, the Leading Tower
of Pisa, and the majesty of the Thames and London Bridge,
the gaiety and beauty of Paris, and all of the
other colorful ports navy men visit.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
And a navy man just doesn't see those places from
the deck of a ship either. He has show.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Even almost every poet with money in his pocket and
good companions at his side.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Oh, Jack, don't tell me about adventure in the navy.
What about it? Fellows?
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Are you fed up with life at home where nothing
seems to happen. You want financial security, a chance for advancement,
Want to be thoroughly trained in one of the Navy's
valuable skills. Want to be able to retire with a
lifetime income. All right, then think of the Navy as
a career. If you're over seventeen, you really ought to
(13:30):
find out about how you can be a part.
Speaker 5 (13:32):
Of this great Navy crew.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Contact your local Navy recruiting officer immediately. He'll give you
all the details. Now, Steve, what's on tap for next week? Well, Zack,
the Big Fellow liked a joke as well as anybody,
but once what's tarted out to be an innocent gag
(13:56):
backfired into a near tragedy with the wildest results you
can managin.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
I want to tell you all about it next week.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
The Adventures of Babe Bruce is written by Ben Peter Freeman,
produced by Woody Close, directed by Ronald Dawson, and presented
by the United States Navy.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Welcome Back, a fun story and as I said at
the start, it's totally fiction, but this may be the
one that is furthest from Ruth on field exploits, which
included many confrontations with umpires and no resolution that was
near this magnanimous. It has to be said that when
(15:24):
the Babe started playing, the game was still quite wild
and occasionally raucous, and Ruth had more than his share
in that, including an incident with the Red Sox in
nineteen seventeen when Ruth was twenty two and punched an
(15:44):
umpire after walking the first batter. Ironically, this would become
a combined no hitter. As another picture, Ernie Shore came
in and retired all twenty six batters he faced in
the Runner, the Baby Aloud got thrown out. Yet over
time the game changed and the Babe changed with it.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:07):
He didn't live a very long time after his playing days.
He lived more than a decade and became an elder
statesman in the sport and a great ambassador for the game.
So this episode reflects less who Babe was when he played,
but who he would become, as well as the writer's
(16:29):
aspiration for the character of young listeners to the program,
as well as the long term character of the great
National Game. It's time for me to close up the
Old snack Wagon, but don't worry. We'll be back with
another serving of old time radio goodness before you know it.
(16:50):
If you want to enjoy some of our longer form podcasts,
you can feast away at my website at Great Detectives
dot net. Your emails are also welcome at Adam at
snackwagon dot net.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
The Old Time Radio Snackwagon comes to you from Boise, Idaho.
Your host is Adam Graham. Sound production is by Ryn's
Media LLC. You can listen to past episodes of the
Old Time Radio Snackwagon as well as connect on social
media at our website at snackwagon dot net. Email suggestions
(17:23):
for episodes to Adam at snackwagon dot net. This has
been the Old Time Radio Snackwagon.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Until next time. Goodbye,
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