The Pecan Park Eagle

“THERE’S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!”

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RUTH FINED FOR STEPPING ON GAS, GOING UP BROADWAY!

By Associated Press

New York, April 27 (1921). – Babe Ruth is too fast for New York. He appeared today in traffic court and was fined $25 for driving his automobile up Broadway last week at twenty-seven miles an hour, on his way to keep an engagement with the Yankees at the Polo Grounds.

Half an hour before the court opened, a crowd had gathered to see the baseball star. After the Babe had fumbled with his cap nervously, admitted that he was sorry, and paid the lowest fine the court could impose, the crowd sent up a cheer.

~ Galveston Daily News, Associated Press, April 28, 1921.

Storyline derived from this article submission to TPPE by researcher Darrell Pittman.

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… and if the crowd cheer had been a chorus about the Babe’s near brush with justice, it may have even borrowed from a song of the future to parody this outcome that remains in play forever, “Big Girls Don’t Cry” works fine as our model for the choral celebration of Babe’s easy escape from the short arm of the law governing celebrities of his ilk:

Big stars –  don’t pay
Big stars –  don’t pay

Big stars –  don’t pay
(They don’t pay)

Big stars – they don’t a pay yay yay
(Can’t make ’em pay)

Big stars – they just fly high
(My oh my – My oh my)

Babe – Ruth – he  didn’t cry yiy yiy
(I wonder why?)

Babe told the judge right away
(Silly boy) Your Honor, I’m sorry
(Silly boy) I’ll do better tomorry,

Big stars – don’t pay

Big stars – don’t pay
(Nor do they – cry)
Not in – base-ball

Big stars – don’t cry
Big stars – don’t cry
Big stars – don’t cry