The Babe Ruth Story Times" stated that the film "stands as possibly the worst movie ever made." The film has been called one of the worst sports films ever by "Newsday" and "The A.V. Club", and called one of the worst biopics by Moviefone and Spike. Michael Sauter included it in his book "The Worst Movies of All Time", and Leonard Maltin called it "perfectly dreadful." The Babe Ruth Story The Babe Ruth Story is a 1948 baseball film biography of Babe Ruth, the famed New York Yankees slugger. It stars William Bendix (New York Yankee batboy in the 1920s) as the ballplayer and
Babe Ruth was almost entirely ghostwritten. In and out of the hospital in Manhattan, he left for Florida in February 1948, doing what activities he could. After six weeks he returned to New York to appear at a book-signing party. He also traveled to California to witness the filming of the movie based on the book. On June 5, 1948, a "gaunt and hollowed out" Ruth visited Yale University to donate a manuscript of "The Babe Ruth Story" to its library. At Yale, he met with future president George H. W. Bush, who was the captain of the Yale baseball team. On