Babe Ruth is not only a great athlete, but a great fool. His employer, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, makes millions of gallons of beer, and Ruth is of the opinion that he can drink it faster than the colonel and his large group of brewmasters can make it. Well... you can't! Nobody can. [...] You have let down the kids of America.... They have seen their idol shattered and their dream broken. [...] Babe, a kid just stopped me on the street and asked me for a dime. He wanted to make it to a quarter and buy a Babe Ruth cap. Don't you think you owe something to that kid and others like him? Or are you going to keep on letting those little kids down?

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Babe Ruth is not only a great athlete, but a great fool. His employer, Colonel Jacob Ruppert, makes millions of gallons of beer, and Ruth is of the opinion that he can drink it faster than the colonel and his large group of brewmasters can make it. Well... you can't! Nobody can. [...] You have let down the kids of America.... They have seen their idol shattered and their dream broken. [...] Babe, a kid just stopped me on the street and asked me for a dime. He wanted to make it to a quarter and buy a Babe Ruth cap. Don't you think you owe something to that kid and others like him? Or are you going to keep on letting those little kids down?" in the context of "Jimmy Walker, the then New York State Senate Minority Leader, addressing New York baseball writers—and Ruth—at the Elks Club on November 15, 1922, as quoted in The House That Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the redemption of 1923 (2011) by Robert Weintraub and Great Americans in Sports: Babe Ruth (2015) by Matt Christopher" to mean that wisdom is timeless.