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…showed last 75 words of 979 total…fulfill his desire to manage a major baseball team as Babe died from throat cancer at the age of fifty-three. At 8:01 p.m. August 16, 1948, George lost his fight with cancer. Two days after his death, they laid his body in front of Yankee Stadium where hundreds came to say goodbye to the greatest man who ever played the game. April 27 was declared babe Ruth day in every baseball park in the United States and Japan.