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(1948) Babe Ruth Bows Out

Babe Ruth Bows Out, also known as The Babe Bows Out, is a 1948 photograph of Major League Baseball player Babe Ruth taken by New York Herald Tribune photographer Nathaniel Fein at Yankee Stadium in The Bronx borough of New York City. The picture won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Photography.

Ruth was photographed with his back turned to the camera. Ruth was sick with throat cancer at the time and was leaning on a baseball bat for support. The New York Yankees were honoring Ruth by retiring his jersey number.

Background

On June 13, 1948, baseball player Babe Ruth was in Yankee Stadium for his final appearance. Ruth had last played for the Yankees on September 30, 1934. Yankee Stadium was often referred to as "The house that Ruth built." When Ruth came out of the dugout, a band was present and played the song "Auld Lang Syne." One of the New York Herald TribuneШаблон:'s sports photographers who was to attend the ceremony phoned in sick, so Nathaniel Fein was told that morning that he would need to cover the event. Fein normally captured human-interest images and only occasionally photographed sporting events.

Many photographers from other news agencies were present but Fein moved away from the others and positioned himself behind Ruth to capture his jersey number 3, which the team was retiring. Even though the day was overcast, Fein took the photo without a flash. He opened the aperture on his camera to 5.6 and set the shutter speed at 1/25. Tribune sports editor Arthur Glass selected the image from the photos that Fein took that day. It was first published on June 14, 1948 in the New York Herald Tribune.

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Ruth's retired number 3

There were 49,641 fans at Yankee Stadium to watch the Babe Ruth number retirement ceremony on June 13, 1948. Ruth did not appear to be healthy at the retirement ceremony. He came out of the dugout using his baseball bat as a cane and stood alone on the field just in front of home plate. He waved his cap and then spoke into a microphone to say, "This makes me feel proud. It makes me feel good." The image captured by Fein showed Ruth from the back as he stepped forward. His legs looked thin as he stood before the crowd. In the image, Ruth is in focus, and while he is surrounded by items that a viewer may recognize, those other things do not distract from Ruth.

Fein said, "I saw Ruth standing there with his uniform number three, the number that would be retired, and knew that was the shot." The angle of the image captured Ruth's weakness by revealing the tilt of his back. Fein said of the image composition, "You didn't need to see the Babe's face to recognize him. You'd recognize his great hulk and spindly legs anyplace." Ruth had last played in the league in 1935 for the Boston Braves.

Reception

The image won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Photography, and was the first sports-related photo to win a Pulitzer Prize. An Associated Press photographer had captured an image which was almost the same as Fein's but their photograph was not submitted to the Pulitzer jury.

The photograph is in Cooperstown, New York, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. It was also displayed at the Smithsonian Institution. Fein sent a copy to Babe Ruth asking him to autograph it, but Ruth did not respond. Two months after the photograph was taken, Ruth died of throat cancer.

See also

• List of photographs considered the most important

External link

• MLB video: Babe Ruth's No 3 is retired