HENDERSON, Nev. — Julia Ruth Stevens, a last surviving daughter of Hall of Fame baseball slugger Babe Ruth and a champion of his legacy, has died.
She was 102.
Stevens’ family says she died Saturday at an assisted living facility in Henderson, Nevada, after a short illness.
Stevens authored three books about her famous father and called him “a one of a kind” who will always be mentioned as long as there is baseball.
She was adopted by baseball’s biggest star soon after Ruth married her mother, Claire Hodgson, in 1929, when Julia was 12.