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"You are the best, you are the best there's ever been."
"Half of everything I own just went down the drain with the "Gladiators of Broadway." The other half is in the pocket of The Sultan of Swat, and he wants a raise and his own suites during road games."
"There Was Only One."
"Apart from being a bad film in the first place, aside from being superficially written, aside from being shot with little sense of time or place, the movie portrays Babe Ruth as a man almost completely lacking in the ability to have, or to provide, happiness. Spending these 115 minutes with the Babe is a little like being jammed into the window seat on a long-distance bus, next to a big guy with beer and cigars on his breath and nothing to talk about but his next meal and his last broad."
"Less a biography than a baseball movie, "The Babe" is a muddy field of dreams fertilized with a whole lot of Bull Durham. Loosely based on George Herman Ruth's life, this shallow, soap-operatic treatment makes the man fit the myth. And bigger-than-life or not, he rattles around inside there like the prize in a Cracker Jack box."
"John Goodman – Babe Ruth"
"Kelly McGillis – Claire Hodgson Ruth"
"Trini Alvarado – Helen Woodford Ruth"
"Bruce Boxleitner – Jumpin' Joe Dugan"
"Peter Donat – Harry Frazee, Red Sox owner"
"James Cromwell – Brother Mathias"
"J.C. Quinn – Jack Dunn"
"Joe Ragno – Miller Huggins"
"Richard Tyson – Guy Bush"
"Ralph Marrero – Ping Bodie"
"Bob Swan – George Herman Ruth Sr."
"Bernard Kates – Colonel Jacob Ruppert"
"Michael McGrady – Lou Gehrig"
"Danny Goldring – Bill Carrigan"
"Guy Barile – Johnny Torrio"
"Bernie Gigliotti – Al Capone"
"Ian McCabe – kid who fails math test"
"W. Earl Brown – Herb Pennock"
"Thom C. Simmons – Bill McKechnie"
"Rick Reardon – Ernie Shore"
"Randy Steinmeyer – Ty Cobb"
"Wayne Messmer – Yankee Stadium announcer"
"Larry Cedar – Forbes Field announcer"
"Michael Kendall – Jack Warhop"
"Harry Hutchinson – Tris Speaker"
"Irma P. Hall – Fanny Baily"
"Stephen Caffrey – Older Johnny"