In a place where baseball's future can seem murky at times, the sport's past is a straight baseline to the Babe – George ...

This year marks 100 years since the slugger came to St. Petersburg for spring training with the Yankees in 1925.

He was a worldwide celebrity, an international star, the likes of which baseball has never seen since," says broadcaster Ernie Harwell about Babe Ruth on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series.

Babe Ruth always had a woman waiting for him and tipped his train station porter very well each time he came through St.