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 a Baltimore row house where Ruth was born, and three blocks west of Oriole Park at Camden Yards, where the AL's Baltimore Orioles play. The property was restored and opened to the public in 1973 by the non-profit Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation, Inc. Ruth's widow, Claire, his two daughters, Dorothy and Julia, and his sister, Mamie, helped select and install exhibits for the museum. Ruth was the first baseball star to be the subject of overwhelming public adulation. Baseball had been known for star players such as Ty Cobb and "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, but both men had uneasy relations with