Art & Commerce: Is Babe Ruth The Candy Man?

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Not to nitpick, but in Mark Dolliver’s Takes [July 19], an item noted that the Sports Illustrated list of 20 athletes “who brought us the greatest joy in this century” contained just one athlete with a candy bar named after him, Babe Ruth.
Assuming you are thinking of the Baby Ruth candy bar, that is incorrect. The bar, according to the original makers, the Curtiss Candy Bar Co., was named after Ruth Cleveland, daughter of President Grover Cleveland.

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