Julia Ruth Stevens, the adopted daughter of Babe Ruth, dies at age 102. She was part of the game during most of her life:
Mrs. Stevens made occasional appearances at major league ballparks until she was 100, although she had become legally blind from macular degeneration.
When the Yankees played their last game at the old Stadium, the House That Ruth Built, in September 2008, she threw out the first pitch. And she threw out the first ball at a Red Sox game at Fenway Park on July 10, 2016, to mark her 100th birthday three days earlier.
In July 2014, the 100th anniversary of Ruth’s major league debut as a pitcher for the Red Sox, Mrs. Stevens told The Los Angeles Times how “I miss him even to this day.”NYTimes.com
“But his spirit seems to hover over the baseball field,” she said.
My thoughts go out to her family and friends.
On a personal note, I speculated that my dad might be the Lou Gehrig‘s retirement (opens in a new tab)” href=”https://ift.tt/2Ceene5; target=”_blank”>oldest living person to have seen Lou Gehrig’s retirement. Mrs. Stevens easily could have been at that game, as Ruth attended to honor Gehrig. So dad’s odds improve a bit.
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