Here is a wonderful article from Smithsonian Magazine about
the famous photo of a dying Babe Ruth taken at Yankee Stadium.
The article also mentions the gentlemen's agreement among sportswriters never to refer to the fact that the Babe had cancer. This is similar to how the press never talked about FDR's polio. Can you even imagine such journalistic restraint today? There are very few gentlemen left; plus today you are given details about people's lives that you'd rather not know.
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