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Babe Ruth (Not That One) Stole Baseball Players’ Identities, U.S. Says

George Herman Ruth, a Tennessee man with the same full name as the Yankees slugger, used the names of retired and dead players to commit fraud, prosecutors said.

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Babe Ruth in 1931. A Tennessee man with the same full name as the Hall of Fame slugger used the identities of former baseball players as part of a fraud scheme, federal prosecutors said.
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