Exhibit, Babe Ruth Museum

ID: 1950 ~ Source: Flickr ~ Creator: Jim Capaldi ~ Date: 2013 April 28

This file appears in: Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum: Original Emory Street Home of the "Sultan of Swat"

Exhibit display case shows the history of the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum, originally known as the Babe Ruth Shrine.

This file appears in: Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum: Original Emory Street Home of the "Sultan of Swat"

Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum: Original Emory Street Home of the "Sultan of Swat"

By Eli Pousson

On February 6, 1968, the city paid $1,850 to buy four vacant, vandalized rowhouses on Emory Street—an unusual birthday celebration for famed Baltimore native Babe Ruth. Exactly seventy-three years…