“Ho solo una superstizione. Mi assicuro di toccare tutte le basi quando faccio home run.”
Origine: Citato in Marco Pastonesi e Giorgio Terruzzi, Palla lunga e pedalare, Dalai Editore, 1992, p. 56. ISBN 88-8598-826-2.
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As quoted in "Babe Ruth, Idle First time In 23 Years, Blames His Legs"
Responding to Chicago sportscaster Hal Totten in the spring of 1933, as to whether Ruth had actually 'called' his 5th-inning home run in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series, as quoted in "Oct. 1, 1932 The Yankees' Babe Ruth Gestures Toward Wrigley Field's Bleachers Then Homers Off The Cubs' Charlie Root, Apparently Calling His Shot In Game 3 Of The World Series" http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-11-01/sports/8703230677_1_babe-ruth-cub-bench-world-series-history/3 by Jerome Holtzman, in The Chicago Tribune (1987)
In The Babe Ruth Story (1948) by Ruth, with Bob Considine, pp. 123-124
From "Babe Speaks His Mind Anent the Deliberate Pass," http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1920/08/14/page/7/ by Ruth (as told to Pegler), in The Chicago Tribune (August 14, 1920), p. 7; reprinted as "The Intentional Pass," https://books.google.com/books?id=SAAlxi-0EZYC&pg=PA32 in Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball, p. 32
Speaking to reporters after arriving at spring training significantly overweight, roughly one month before being hospitalized and missing the first six weeks of the 1925 season, his worst as a Yankee, as quoted in "At the Training Camps," https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mhgsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A7oEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1687%2C1993027&dq=don't-worry-about-weight The Florence Times (March 2, 1925), p. 4
"Chapter II," Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball (1928), pp. 19-20; reprinted as "Babe Ruth's Own Story — Chapter II: Baseball Game Is Like a Battle; Two Big Divisions, Offense and Defense; What They Are," https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rksbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J0sEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2024%2C3275342&dq=if-read-newspapers-way-team-plays-whole in The Pittsburgh Press (December 21, 1928), p. 52
Handwritten note http://greyflannelauctions.com/lot-31264.aspx, written on October 9, 1926, just prior to Game 6 of the World Series, reproduced in "Bambino's Death Stirs Prayers; Baseball Memories Roused; Message Recalls Story of Homers in '26" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10924759/, The Salt Lake Tribune (August 18, 1948), p. 24
"Chapter I," https://books.google.com/books?id=g0wbKn2OSNQC&pg=PA12 Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball (1928) by Ruth, as told to Ford Frick (uncredited), p. 12
As quoted in "$20,000 Yearly the Figure Ruth Names; Cheering Message to Frazee On His Way to Films" by John J. Hallahan, in The Boston Globe (October 25, 1919), p. 5
In The Babe Ruth Story; reproduced in Babe Ruth: His Life and Times https://books.google.com/books?id=iBZIirjqJpwC&q=i%22i+think+my+mother+hated+me%22+%22babe+Ruth%22&dq=i%22i+think+my+mother+hated+me%22+%22babe+Ruth%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRx8u24fPQAhXGWCYKHdq-CQIQ6AEIFjAA (1995) by Paul Adomites, p. 22; and in "Being Babe Ruth's Daughter" http://grantland.com/features/being-babe-ruth-daughter/ by Jane Leavy, at Grantland (January 3, 2012)
In "Babe Ruth Says: I Would Like to Better Mark," The Austin Statesman (June 25, 1929), p. 11
As quoted in "The Sportlight" by Grantland Rice, in The Baltimore Sun (August 22, 1930), p. 13
As quoted in "Babe Ruth, Idle First time In 23 Years, Blames His Legs" by Grantland Rice, in The Baltimore Sun (February 19, 1936), p. 14
“I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.”
Assessment of Wrigley Field shouted during batting practice on October 1, 1932, just prior to Game 3 of the World Series, as recalled by Ruth in a February 1944 interview with Chicago Daily News sports editor John Carmichael; as reproduced in "The Sports Parade" by Braven Dryer, in The Los Angeles Times (February 23, 1944), p. A7; and in Babe Ruth's Called Shot: The Myth and Mystery of Baseball's Greatest Home Run https://books.google.com/books?id=JlOsBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80 (2014) by Ed Sherman, p. 80
As quoted in "Ruth Considers Ty Cobb As Greatest of Players" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/55058790/
“I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”
As quoted in Baseball's Greatest Quotes (1982) by Kevin Nelson; reproduced in "Morning Briefing: Babe Ruth Was Not a Superstitious Man, Except on 714 Occasions," in The Los Angeles Times (March 1, 1982), p. D2
Unsourced variants:
Just one.Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
As quoted in "Ruth Considers Ty Cobb As Greatest of Players" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/55058790/ by Joe Reichler (AP), in The Ironwood Daily Globe (August 24, 1945), p. 10
On the mentoring he received from Brother Matthias Boutlier, Prefect of Discipline at St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, in "Ruth, As a Kid, Learns to Play in Any Position" http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1920/08/09/page/15/ by Ruth, as told to Westbrook Pegler (uncredited), in The Chicago Tribune (August 9, 1920), p. 15; reprinted as "We Did Everything," https://books.google.com/books?id=SAAlxi-0EZYC&pg=PA6&dq=%22Brother+Matthias+had+the+right+idea%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv7_zWgLnQAhUJ7yYKHZQFA_EQ6AEIGjAB#v=onepage&q=%22Brother%20Matthias%20had%20the%20right%20idea%22&f=false in Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball (2011), p. 6
As quoted in "Babe Ruth, Idle First time In 23 Years, Blames His Legs"
In "Babe Ruth Says: I Would Like to Better Mark"
Failed attempt—during a partially scripted radio interview, broadcast live on August 13, 1930—to deliver a familiar but apparently apocryphal quote, followed by his explanation for that failure; as quoted in The Tumult and the Shouting; My Life in Sport (1954) by Grantland Rice; reprinted in "The World I Loved — Part 1: My Baseball Hall of Fame" by Rice, in The New York Herald Tribune (October 3, 1954), pp. 8-9
Circa June 1923, on observing a young Lou Gehrig—almost two years prior to commencing his record-breaking consecutive game streak—take batting practice; as quoted in The Babe Ruth Story https://books.google.com/books?id=5mu1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22that+kid+sure+can+bust+%27em%22+intitle:The+intitle:Babe+intitle:Ruth+intitle:Story&dq=%22that+kid+sure+can+bust+%27em%22+intitle:The+intitle:Babe+intitle:Ruth+intitle:Story&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHhvezyoHcAhVm2oMKHZsSAfAQ6AEIKTAA (1948) by Ruth (as told to Bob Considine), p. 130. In the book, Ruth notes that his statement had evidently given rise to Gehrig's now largely forgotten nickname Buster (the latter having first appeared in print on February 29th, the following year https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B71SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YH0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5967%2C5402147&dq=yankee-includes-lou-gehrig), adding that, despite having long since been eclipsed by such handles as "The Iron Horse" and even "Larrupin' Lou," Gehrig's lesser-known moniker did indeed have its heyday during the early years of his Yankee tenure https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=%22buster+gehrig%22&dr_year=1925-1929. (Not surprisingly, this heyday entailed a good deal of Ruth/Gehrig alliteration, along the lines of "The Buster and the Babe" https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=gehrig+%22the+buster+and+the+babe%22&dr_year=1927-1937 and "the Big Bam and the Boy Buster" https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=Ruth+Gehrig+%22big+bam%22+%22boy+buster%22&dr_year=1927-1928.)
From "Learn Every Job On Team, Babe's Tip to Success—And Marry" http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1920/08/24/page/11/ by Ruth (as told to Pegler), in The Chicago Tribune (August 24,1920), p. 11; reprinted as "The Game I Enjoyed Most" https://books.google.com/books?id=SAAlxi-0EZYC&pg=PA79 in Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball, p. 79
As quoted in "Ruth Flaunts Landis Edict; May 'Get Gate'" http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1921/10/17/page/19/ by the United Press, in The Chicago Tribune (October 17, 1921), p. 19
As quoted in 'Have to Get More of 'Em,' Says Babe Ruth When He Hears of the Income Tax"
“A ballplayer should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”
As quoted in Encyclopedia of Baseball (1951) by Hy Turkin and S. C. Thompson; reproduced in "Good Field, Good Hit Sums Up New Baseball Data Book" http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1951/05/27/page/44/article/good-field-good-hit-sums-up-new-baseball-data-book by Robert Cromie, in The Chicago Tribune (May 27, 1951), p. A4
As quoted in "'Never Happier in My Life' Ruth Tells Grantland Rice; Babe Is Inspired by Challenge of National League Pitchers—Legs Feel Great" by Grantland Rice, in The Boston Globe (March 26, 1935), p. 21
“If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around six hundred!”
As quoted in Stolen! : A History of Base Stealing (1999) by Russell Roberts, Ch. 4 "The Babe Blasts the Steal" p. 71
As quoted in The Business of Baseball (2003) by Albert Theodore Powers, p. 61
