Despite being an exciting season with a brilliant three-team pennant race the 1948 Yankees season was a sad one. Baseball fans across the globe watched as the great Babe Ruth the most famous person in America at the time slowly succumbed to cancer. On June 13 Yankee fans crowded into Yankee Stadium as Babe Ruth's number 3 was retired Ruth's final appearance at the Stadium. Just over a month later on July 26 Ruth attended the premiere of the biopic The Babe Ruth Story. Soon after he was admitted to the hospital for the last time finally passing away on August 16. Presented is a ticket stub to the last Yankee games played while the great Babe Ruth was alive - a doubleheader on Sunday August 15 1948. Though the great Joe DiMaggio would club a home run in the first game and Tommy Henrich and Yogi Berra would do the same in the second the visiting Philadelphia Athletics would sweep the Yankees that day both games by scores of 5-3. The following day - a travel day for the Yankees - Ruth would be gone. Of course the great Babe Ruth would choose a Yankees off-day to be his last. Though the stub appears in VG condition from a presentation standpoint it is clearly torn unevenly the result being a jagged bottom edge. Aside from some very minor foxing and what appears to be glue remnants on the reverse the display itself is strong. An attractive ticket stub from one of the most important dates in baseball history - the day before the great Babe Ruth left us.