EditorialRickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., where the game’s greats of the first half of the 20th century, including Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Shoeless Joe Jackson and Babe Ruth, once played, April 6, 2023. (Charity Rachelle/The New York Times)
EditorialRickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., where the game’s greats of the first half of the 20th century, including Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Shoeless Joe Jackson and Babe Ruth, once played, April 6, 2023. (Charity Rachelle/The New York Times)
EditorialRickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., where the game’s greats of the first half of the 20th century, including Satchel Paige, Josh Gibson, Shoeless Joe Jackson and Babe Ruth, once played, April 6, 2023. (Charity Rachelle/The New York Times)
EditorialJason Farley, a rodeo showman, with Babe, a Watusi cow that greets spectators as they arrive, at the Cowtown Rodeo in Pilesgrove, N.J., on Friday, July 29, 2022. (Gabby Jones/The New York Times)
EditorialThe New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge hits his 60th home run of the season, at Yankee Stadium in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)
EditorialJason Farley, a rodeo showman, with Babe, a Watusi cow that greets spectators as they arrive, at the Cowtown Rodeo in Pilesgrove, N.J., on Friday, July 29, 2022. (Gabby Jones/The New York Times)
Editorial A sacristy box ?reputedly? used by a priest at New York?s St. Patrick?s Cathedral to administer last rites to Babe Ruth in 1948, in the collection of the Baseball Reliquary, Institute for Baseball Studies, in Whittier, Calif., July 11, 2022. (Morgan Lieberman/The New York Times)
EditorialMuhammad Ali and Mike Tysons boxing glove to Diego Maradona and Serena Williams uniforms among haul of sports treasures going under the hammer
EditorialIn Game 4 of the 1926 World Series, Babe Ruth became the first player to hit three home runs in a postseason game. In New York, that was front-page news. (The New York Times)
EditorialBabe Howell, a law professor at City University of New York, has studied the legal aftermath of some of the city’s biggest recent gang takedowns. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
EditorialAn image provided by Bain Collection, Library of Congress shows, from left, Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore, Rube Foster and infielder Del Gainer, circa 1915. (Bain Collection, Library of Congress via The New York Times)
EditorialTom Bradys rookie card set to fetch as much as $300,000 at auction as it joins slew of sports memorabilia from likes of Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan at mega auction