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“Baseball and Thanksgiving” Photo Gallery
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Happy Thanksgiving From Baseball History Comes Alive!

The great American family tradition of “Turkey Day” falls in that “no man’s land” between the last pitch of the World Series and the first pitch of spring training. It’s not exactly our favorite time of the year. But somehow, we manage to make it through year after year.

As is my custom, I always try to find a connection between baseball and holidays. So after an “exhaustive Internet search” (which actually means I put the words “Baseball” and “Thanksgiving” together in a Google search), I stumbled on to this one of the great Bambino celebrating his Thanksgiving dinner with a bunch of kids.

It just seems like whenever you need a baseball photo for a special occasion, the Bambino always comes through… and this year is no exception.  Say what you want him, but when kids were involved, you could always count on the Babe. Those kids in the photo are probably orphans. Having spent many of his early years at the St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, the Babe never forgot where he came from. The mutual affection between the Babe and kids was always genuine. We can only imagine the excitement running through that orphanage when word got out that Babe Ruth would be stopping by on Thanksgiving!

I did manage to find a couple of others that you can check out in the photo gallery. I also included one of my all-time favorites: Lou Gehrig helping out his mother Christina in the kitchen with the Thanksgiving Day dishes, which I try to post every year.

Anyway…I hope you all have a great day with your families. And don’t forget to do your share today in helping out around the kitchen…just like the obedient son, Lou Gehrig. If the great “Iron Horse” can do it, so can we. And Lou looks pretty spiffy in that bow tie, too!

So, again…

So from all of us at Old Time Baseball Photos, Happy Thanksgiving to all our loyal readers. Hope you all have a great day celebrating the great holiday of Thanksgiving with your families!

Gary Livacari 

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