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Oct 2021
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EP86: The Unlikely Pair Who Share A Live...

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On this episode of Our American Stories, Vic Billingsley and Kara French's harrowing transplant journeys that unexpectedly led to a unique friendship and Mike Gibbons, Director Emeritus and Curator of the Babe Ruth Birthplace and Museum, to tells us why there is perhaps no name that looms bigger in sports history, or American culture, than Babe Ruth.

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00:00 - The Unlikely Pair Who Share A Liver

27:30 - The Legendary Man Known as "Babe"

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