Jerome Kleiman
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Our Forgotten But Notable Neighbors The Rocklanders Who Contributed to the Story, Legend, Myth and Legacy of Babe Ruth | Rockland County Times Newspaper: Real News Since 1888 (opens the original)
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The Final Installment of Jerome’s Four Part Series on Babe Ruth and the Baseball Legend’s Connection to Rockland As a young man, Babe Ruth burst upon the scene by hitting an incomparable number of home runs and expanded the enthusiasm for the sport to a level that it had never known. Yet, in the early part of his career as a Yankee he also exhibited unbridled behavior, doing what he wanted, when he wanted to do it. You could say he behaved like a kid in a candy store in which the whole world was
Our Forgotten But Notable Neighbors The Rocklanders Who Contributed to the Story, Legend, Myth and Legacy of Babe Ruth | Rockland County Times Newspaper: Real News Since 1888 (opens the original)
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Which brings us back to the question, why was “Headin Home” filmed in Haverstraw rather than a place closer to Manhattan? It seems that Babe chose Haverstraw because he wanted the severely handicapped boy residents from West Haverstraw’s New York Rehabilitation Hospital (now known as the Helen Hayes Hospital, it was originally called the New York State Hospital for the Care of Indigent Crippled and Deformed Children when it opened in 1905) to appear in the film with him. And, appear they did, bo
Part Two: Our Forgotten But Notable Neighbors The Rocklanders Who Contributed to the Story, Legend, Myth and Legacy of Babe Ruth | Rockland County Times Newspaper: Real News Since 1888 (opens the original)
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Continued from the July 23rd, 2026 Edition of the Rockland County Times With this in mind, Babe accepted an offer of $50,000 to star in a movie called “Headin’ Home”, the filming of which took place largely in the town of Haverstraw in late August 1920, right in the middle the baseball season, and, coincidently, the same week that the 19th Amendment, which made it illegal to deny or abridge women the right to vote, came into law. The scenes were shot early in the mornings so that Babe could trav
Our Forgotten But Notable Neighbors The Rocklanders Who Contributed to the Story, Legend, Myth and Legacy of Babe Ruth | Rockland County Times Newspaper: Real News Since 1888 (opens the original)
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Although it may be debatable as to who baseball’s greatest player of all time is, what is indisputable is that Babe Ruth is, by far and away, the most influential and important person to ever play the game. Even now, some 80 years since his passing, and 90 since he played his last professional game, his effect on the sport is immense. You would be hard pressed to find a baseball fan anywhere who doesn’t know about him or who cannot identify his photo. In fact, one could confidently argue that he
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