Babe Ruth is the focus of a 32-item exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery called “One Life: Babe Ruth,” which opens June 24 and runs through May 15, 2017.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will explore the man, the legend and the portrayal of Ruth in a new exhibition that will run from June 24 through May 15, 2017.

“One Life: Babe Ruth,” at the National Portrait Gallery, recounts his youth and examines sites and artifacts from his Baltimore years. Nearly 50 prints, photos and objects are part of the show. 7.

“Babe Ruth Bows Out” captures the day in 1948 when the baseball great announced his retirement. It won Nat Fein, a photographer for the New York Herald Tribune, a Pulitzer Prize.

The Babe kept his memory alive of being sent at age seven to an orphanage and reform school. ... (National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution) 5. Ruth’s bats by Hellerich and Bradsby Co. In the ...

WASHINGTON — Babe Ruth was a man with many names — “Big Bam,” “The Great Bambino” and the “Sultan of Swat,” to name a few — and a new exhibit at Smithsonian’s National Portrait ...