Babe Ruth at Sing Sing (2019)
A new documentary about the 1929 exhibition game
This hour-long documentary weaves back and forth between the careers of Babe Ruth, the major sports figure of his day, and Sing Sing Warden Lewis E. Lawes, "America's Warden." The two figures meet in person when Lawes invites Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees to play an exhibition game against the Sing Sing inmates on September 5, 1929.
- Date of release
- 2019-12-30
- Runtime
- 52m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Jim Ormond
Casting
- Ray Arrucci — Narrator
- Linda Ruth Tosetti — Katharine Lawes
- Dennis Dowd — Babe Ruth
- John Zion — Lewis Lawes
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