If you look at the date of the revised poem, the version mentioning the " big guy" , you'll find that it one day after Babe Ruth died. Knowing the affection Rice and so many others felt for Ruth, I would wager a guess that's who he was referring to.
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If you look at the date of the revised poem, the version mentioning the " big guy" , you'll find that it one day after Babe Ruth died. Knowing the affection Rice and so many others felt for Ruth, I would wager a guess that's who he was referring to.