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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"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.