National Babe Ruth Day is April 27 - A Tribute to the Man Who Won So Singular a Place in American Life

The world's first mega-celebrity Babe Ruth left his footprints in the Jungle, having played over 100 rounds of golf on the Jungle Country Club golf course during the years he trained in St. Petersburg with the Yankees.

"He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe Ruth made the music that his joyous years danced to in a continuous party... What Babe Ruth is comes down, one generation handing it down to the next, as a national heirloom."
‒ Jimmy Cannon

Newsreel footage of the first Babe Ruth Day, April 27, 1947.