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 legal difficulties to be straightened out as Ruth was supposed to remain at the school until he turned 21. The train journey to spring training in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in early March was likely Ruth's first outside the Baltimore area. The rookie ballplayer was the subject of various pranks by the veterans, who were probably also the source of his famous nickname. There are various accounts of how Ruth came to be called Babe, but most center on his being referred to as "Dunnie's babe" or a variant. "Babe" was at that time a common nickname in baseball, with perhaps