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The Adventures of Babe Ruth

9 episodes · 1949 · Syndicated (U.S. Navy) · Drama

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Fifteen-minute baseball stories built around Babe Ruth, told by a sportswriter called Steve Martin, with Jackson Beck announcing and Ben Peter Freeman writing. They are often said to be the 1934 Quaker Oats series, and the Internet Archive labels them that way, but RadioGOLDINdex says they are a later U.S. Navy recruiting series, about 1949 by the recruiting announcements, with an actor playing the Babe. The real Babe Ruth can be heard on Bill Stern's Colgate Sports Newsreel of March 22, 1946.

Sources: RadioGOLDINdex

Episodes

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1949

• Dusty Collins 1949 · Syndicated (U.S. Navy) · 15 min
• Dutch Reaver 1949 · Syndicated (U.S. Navy) · 15 min
  The Babe accidentally injures pitcher Dutch Reiver on a hunting trip, then falls into a strange slump in the World Series.
• Harry the Hat 1949 · Syndicated (U.S. Navy) · 15 min
  A young sportswriter nearly makes a terrible mistake in the story of the Babe and Harry the Hat.
• Sweet William 1949 · Syndicated (U.S. Navy) · 15 min
• There Are No Bad Kids 1949 · Syndicated (U.S. Navy) · 14 min
  The Babe teaches a lesson to a bully who has been making younger kids steal for him.
• The Chick Foster Story 1949 · Syndicated (U.S. Navy) · 14 min
• Kidnapped 1949 · Syndicated (U.S. Navy) · 14 min
  Gamblers kidnap the Babe just before the World Series and tell him to throw the game.
• Bobby Lee 1949 · Syndicated (U.S. Navy) · 14 min
• The Babe and the Club Owner 1949 · Syndicated (U.S. Navy) · 14 min
  The Babe crosses a crooked club owner and ends up fighting a whole city.