On Tuesday of this week, Chief Larry and I interviewed our Baseball Historian friend Tim Reid, Storm Glenn and Bill Jenkinson. They were in Baltimore in the process of disclosing a photo of a young George Herman (Babe) Ruth. Their original plan had them breaking this story here on the Buzzyblog, but the Austin, Texas Fox News folks launched it with this report.

Here is our interview with Tim, Storm and Bill. (One correction – at the 19:50 mark, I mention Babe having played ball here in the County on the Tudor Hall Field when I should have said that he played on the Leonard Hall Ball Field. Got my Leonardtown Halls mixed up!)

Here is the photo Storm found at the estate sale.

Note – we usually publish our Buzzy Podcasts on Mondays, but we are showing this one now because today is the Babe’s birthday. He was born on 6 February 1895. We also conducted a second interview with Bill and that podcast will appear on the Buzzyblog this coming Monday.

For all of Babe’s great baseball exploits and photos of him on ball fields and in uniform, my favorite photo of him is this one of him and his Dad wearing aprons, vests and ties standing behind the counter in his Dad’s bar. Guess you can see why I tend to have it as my favorite Babe photo.

Musically, check out this tune that Tim re-wrote the lyrics to in honor of Babe. It appears on an album Nine for Babe that Tim produced and wrote several of the songs on it.