You don’t think this also happened to the 27 Yankees or the 67 Packers? Of course it happened. The difference now is there are cameras everywhere. You can’t get away with anything
Each writer is acutely aware that he is standing in front of the greatest baseball player of all time, inside the locker room of the greatest baseball team of all time. It doesn’t matter how cynical they may be, all of them feel privileged to have witnessed history. Now they are poised to record history’s first draft, to memorialize the Babe’s final words of the season, which tomorrow morning will appear in every newspaper, in every city across America.
The Babe rips a tremendous fart, then shouts, “F**k the Pirates!”