{"id":724789,"date":"2026-06-13T10:48:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/724789\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T10:48:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:48:14","slug":"this-day-in-history-june-13-1948-babe-ruth-bids-final-farewell-at-yankee-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/724789\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day in History: June 13, 1948: Babe Ruth bids final farewell at Yankee Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEW YORK (WCSC) \u2014 Babe Ruth bid his final farewell at Yankee Stadium 78 years ago, where he appeared for the 25th anniversary celebrations of \u201cThe House that Ruth Built.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Following his cancer diagnosis, he lost a great deal of weight, had difficulty walking, and his voice was a low whisper. He died a couple months later on Aug. 16, 1948 at the age of 58.<\/p>\n<p>Baseball career<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Nicknamed \u201cthe Bambino,\u201d Ruth began his Major League Baseball career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox; however, he achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees, where he played from 1920-1934.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Babe Ruth is considered one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture, and many consider him to be the all-time greatest baseball player. In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its First Five inaugural members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Yankees retired his number, \u201cthree,\u201d in 1948.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCSC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WCSC) \u2014 Babe Ruth bid his final farewell at Yankee Stadium 78 years ago, where he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[82282,72531,1647,5,802,141,10499,193,19,4,1690,62,2548,2547,89,90522,90523,5000,142],"class_list":["post-724789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-yankees","tag-america-250","tag-american-history","tag-babe-ruth","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-history","tag-boston","tag-bronx","tag-history","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkyankees","tag-red-sox","tag-the-bambino","tag-what-happened-to-babe-ruth","tag-yankee-stadium","tag-yankees"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116742409596395195","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}