If you're an aficionado of Baltimore baseball history, and you've got nothing planned for Saturday morning, have I got something you'll be interested in.
On Sept. 24, 82 years to the day that Baltimore-born Babe Ruth played his last game with the New York Yankees, Baltimore Heritage will sponsor "Babe Ruth's Baltimore By Bus," a tour through the Charm City sites that were important in the Sultan of Swat's early life.
Charlie Vascellaro, a local freelance sports writer who has written extensively on and researched The Babe, will lead the tour, which begins at 10 a.m. at the Peabody Heights Brewery, ending about two hours later at the same site with a beer and hot dog lunch. Free parking is available in the lot of the brewery, located at 401 E. 30th St.
Among the sites the tour will visit are the house where Ruth was born, the school where he learned to play nall, the cemetery where his father is buried, the site of the original Baltimore Orioles' ballpark and current home of the Peabody Heights Brewery, where The Babe made his professional debut.
As a special treat, the tour will offer access inside the former Cardinal Gibbons High School, where a mural honors Ruth's time at St. Mary's Industrial School, where he learned to play baseball.
If it was in Baltimore, and it influenced Ruth's rags-to-riches story during his formative years, chances are the tour will cover it.
Cost for the tour is $25. For tickets or more information, call 410-332-9992.