LOL, according to our Marines who served in the Pacific, the Japanese didn’t care much for Babe Ruth during the war!
Sports Illustrated is a leftwing rag.
In a book about the Guadalcanal campaign, Robert Leckie writes that some Marines that were on patrol deep in the jungle started shouting out insults at the Japanese emperor and premier. Then from somewhere out ahead of them behind the thick foliage they heard a shout, "%#@& Babe Ruth!"