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It
was a cold, windy October day at the Meridale Baseball Park at West
Montauk Highway and South Second Street. But nothing could keep
the crowds away on that brisk fall day of 1930. That was the day
Babe Ruth came to Lindenhurst.
Accompanied by other
big-leaguers such as Lou Gehrig, Ruth played an exhibition game against
Addie Klein's Lindenhurst Nine, an amateur baseball club. Bundled up in
blankets and overcoats, none of the 4,000 fans seemed to mind that the
local team got beat by Ruth and his cohorts by a score of 10-4.
- Stop by the Old Village Hall museum located
on Wellwood Avenue to see a Babe Ruth autographed baseball !!
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