Babe Ruth's daughter finally became a Red Sox fan--AP, Newsday

Babe Ruth's daughter was a Yankee fan most of her life despite living in New Hampshire for more than 50 years. (Yahoo headline below is misleading. Reader is invited to believe she hasn't been a longtime Yankee fan. Not that it's such a big deal, but why write a misleading headline that includes the name of a famous person?):

4/9/2012, "Babe Ruth’s daughter still isn’t a Yankees fan," Yahoo Sports, Big League Stew, David Brown

"The Associated Press [no link] picked it up:

For most of her life, Stevens said, she was a Yankees fan, despite living in New Hampshire for more than 50 years. Her husband was a loyal Red Sox fan until the one season in the mid-'90s when he decided he couldn't take another season without a World Series victory. Stevens started rooting for the Red Sox in his place.

"He just gave up on them. I said, 'You haven't.' He said, 'Yes, I have.' I've been pulling for them all these years and they haven't won,' " she told the Globe. "It was about that time I took up for them."...

Stevens, who was adopted by Ruth after her mother married him, adopted the team that gave him up in 1918."...

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Julia Ruth Stevens, now age 91, said she became a Red Sox fan about 10 years ago. Living in New England, it wasn't possible for her to be a Yankee fan:

• "Stevens explained that she rooted for the Yankees as long as she could while living part of the year in Conway, N.H., but finally gave in to the New England vibe.

"I watch baseball all the time," she said. "In New England, you mostly get the Red Sox. You don't get the Yankees' games. You can't live in New England without being a Red Sox fan. I've lived up there for 60-something years. It's so hard to be a Yankee fan in a country that's all Red Sox. But I held out until about 10 years ago.""

• Newsday article by Anthony Rieber, 6/21/08, "Ruth's Daughter-A Sox fan-Stops by House her Father Built"  
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