S22E05: Babe Ruth
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Baseball legend Babe Ruth, nicknamed "The Sultan of Swat" during his 22-season career, is a treasured piece of Yankees history, but not exactly a family guy! Turns out, he might even have gone to great lengths to limit the financial damage a divorce from his first wife could have inflicted.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces. Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. My name is |
| 0:07.1 | Stacey. Hey, friends, Alicia here. And thank you for joining us for today's tale of marital misadventure. |
| 0:14.3 | What you got for us, Alicia? This one of my favorites. We're pulling a terrific story out of our |
| 0:19.2 | higher tier Patreon vault. I did this bonus |
| 0:22.4 | divorce in the summertime of last year. What's the story? Babe Ruth, baseball legend, and the |
| 0:29.7 | mysterious death of his wife Helen, who wasn't living with Babe. She was living with her lover, |
| 0:36.4 | not her husband. Poor Helen |
| 0:38.2 | dies in a fire in 1929. It's a mystery. It's very trashy. It has some true crime. Really, |
| 0:45.0 | really twisty this one. Mm-hmm. Inman does stop in to TdHQ to help in his executive producing |
| 0:53.1 | things. He's a helper. |
| 0:54.8 | This one's a little looser than you normally hear on the main feed, but the story has everything. |
| 0:59.6 | I don't want to reveal too much here, but I have so many questions. |
| 1:02.7 | I think you're really, really, really going to like it. |
| 1:06.0 | Alicia, I think it's time to batter up and go, go, go. |
| 1:21.6 | Music I think it's time to batter up and go, go, go. All right, Alicia, it is bonus divorce time here on Ye Oldie Patreon. |
| 1:32.9 | I love it. Hey, everybody, welcome to my bonus divorce time here on ye oldy patreon i love it hey everybody welcome to my bonus divorce for june which has changed about nine times i've got about nine other bonus divorces but i got a hot |
| 1:38.4 | line on something that a story i'd never heard before it's got got, I mean, a lot of stories I have a little |
| 1:45.8 | bit of knowledge of. Yeah. This one shocked me. Popped out of nowhere. Do y'all know about the time |
| 1:50.8 | that Babe Ruth maybe killed his wife? What? Take me out of the ball game. Wow. I know. |
| 1:58.4 | I don't know about this. No, this is the most amazing story that I'd never heard. |
| 2:02.6 | Maybe y'all haven't heard this either. |
| 2:04.0 | I am pulling this information from a number of sites, but I'm mainly using retrocymba.com. |
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