Even into her 90s, she called him Daddy. She loved to tell of the 14-room apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side where he delighted in trimming the Christmas tree with icicles and how, when she began dating, he made sure she returned home by midnight.
In her later years, she traveled around the baseball map, most notably to the house he figuratively built, telling of his life beyond the ballpark.
Julia Ruth Stevens, the adopted daughter of Babe Ruth, died Saturday in an assisted living facility in Henderson, Nevada. A Boston Red Sox fan in her later years but always with a warm spot for the New York Yankees, she was 102.