re the babe v the pride of the yankees behrens cc swarthmore edu eric behrens writes the babe and the pride of the yankees offer very different renditions of the sotry about ruth and gherig hitting home runs for the boy in the hospital can some historian out there explain history s version of the story i wouldn t put is past either or both of the movies to season the truth with a little extra spice any other comments as to inaccuracies in these two movies good question i kind of wondered about this myself just one thought i had on it the babe himself was in pride of the yankees which made me think a that version may be closer to the truth and b the babe must have been a pretty good gut to be in the movie even though some of the scenes didn t make him look completely flattering chris roney e mail chris roney sfu ca
