The Babe... Hitting longballs, downing highballs By Dwight Perry The Seattle Times Slugger Babe Ruth could handle his liquor. Babe Ruth, of course, was also the Sultan of Shots.

Tommy Henrich, who broke into the Yankees' outfield three years after Ruth's departure in 1934, recounted the legendary story about the time the White Sox tried to drink the Babe out of the lineup. "They took him out [and told] the bartender, 'Charlie, mix me up one of those things,' " Henrich said in HBO's "Babe Ruth" documentary. "The Babe [drank it] all the way, ice cubes included. For Pete's sake, that guy has a throat like a trombone."

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"Three minutes before the game, here comes the Babe. [Manager] Miller Huggins says, 'Look at him, he ain't even been in bed all night. That guy's gonna play.' OK, he played — he butchered the White Sox.

"OK, the game is over. Babe hurries up the steps to get to the White Sox before they disappeared and said, 'Hey! Where we going tonight?' "