"The big guy's been dead a dozen years, but it's funny how his name keeps bobbing up at World Series time. When Mickey hit his home runs it was first "three behind Ruth," then "two behind Ruth." And when Yogi Berra bounced one foul atop the right-field roof the memory was of Ruth smacking one fair in this fashion in his fading days as a National Leaguer."
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Harold Rosenthal, in “Parking Lots, Pickpockets Take All Traffic Will Bear” by Rosenthal, in The New York Herald Tribune (Friday, October 7, 1960), p. 31
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