Julia Ruth Stevens in MA for Babe Ruth League World Series
Sep 4th, 2008 by admin
Recently, Babe’s daughter, Julia, was in Quincy, MA for the 14-year old Babe Ruth League World Series. While in Quincy she was interviewed by Fox Boston regarding her Dad. She also shared her thoughts regarding her baseball “affiliations”. To hear her stories and thoughts on “Daddy”, view the news clip before:
Aside from My Grand Dad and Babe Ruth looking very much alike and living through the same era, my grand dad, Louis Iuzzolino, who founded the first Illinois Integrated AFL-CIO Union, played ball with and captained two historic teams which won the Chicago City Championships. I have a Trophy cup of one of them called The All Nations Team in which players of several races played; Native Americans were among the several nationalities. My grand dad who was a friend of Hack Wilson’s played against black teams as well. He met Ruth on two occasions. Grandpa Lou, known as “Cap,” was an excellent defensive catcher and a moderately successful hitter, standing 5′-7″, 180 pounds. He was signed or invited to Spring Training by the Chicago White Sox, but left because he was homesick and never returned. However, he made a strong impression on the team and kept in close touch. He held Sunday Morning buffet luncheons at his home for years in which Politicians, writers, artists and athletes attended, and my mom, then single, but younger than Lyons recalled his attendance at the buffets him very early in his career. Both he and my mom died the same year, 1986, he was 85 she was 83.