Original Babe Ruth team re-unites on home turf

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Babe Ruth

Members of the Hamilton Little Bigger Baseball League, which was the United States’ original Babe Ruth baseball team, had a reunion lunch at Switlik Park Tuesday as the returned to the venue where it all began 67 years to the date when it all began. The Little Bigger League played their first game in Yardville in May, 1951 and the following year, Babe Ruth Baseball was formed (Photo by Jen Howarth)

Babe Ruth

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Rich Fisher has been around the Hamilton Township sports scene for so long that he actually got Rich Giallella’s autograph when Giallella was still a player! Proud product of Hamilton YMCA and Lou Gehrig baseball leagues and former teammate of Jim Maher on a very average Barton & Cooney rec basketball team, Fish graduated from Nottingham Junior High and Steinert High school and has covered township sports since 1980. His goal in life is to convince Maria Prato that Jersey tomatoes are at least 100 times better than California tomatoes.