At spring training Babe Ruth collapses in the railroad station in Asheville, NC
On April 5, 1925 – At spring training, the New York Yankees whip the Brooklyn Robins, 16 – 9, but the headlines are about Babe Ruth. The Bambino collapses in the railroad station in Asheville, North Carolina. The “bellyache heard round the world,” so dubbed when a writer suggests that a hot dog and soda binge caused the illness, The Bambino collapses in the railroad station in Asheville, NC, and winds up in a New York City hospital. Ruth will undergo an operation for an ulcer on April 17th and will be in bed until May 26th.
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