Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. You know how bad my voice sounds. Well, it feels just as bad.
You know, this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth. That means the boys. And after you're a boy and grow up to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing clubs today in your national pastime. The only real game in the world, I think, is baseball. As a rule, people think that if you give boys a football or a baseball or something like that, they naturally become athletes right away. But you can't do that in baseball. You got to start from way down, at the bottom, when the boys are six or seven years of age. You can't wait until they're 15 or 16. You got to let it grow up with you, if you're the boy. And if you try hard enough, you're bound to come out on top, just as these boys here have come to the top now.
There have been so many lovely things said about me today that I'm glad to have had the opportunity to thank everybody. Thank you.
all George Herman "Babe" Ruth songs all songs from 1947