A few minutes beforehand, she played catch with another No. 3 – Spokane infielder Jonah McReynolds – just to be sure she still had it. It had been more than a year, she said, since she’d thrown a baseball.

The ambassador of her grandfather’s legacy, Tosetti is in Spokane this week to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Hutton Settlement, the children’s home that George Herman “Babe” Ruth visited in 1926. 

Ruth was an orphan and he always had a heart for children, Tosetti said.

“My grandfather was very smart. He was smart with baseball, he was smart with people, and kids,” she said. “He loved kids.”

When Indians staff members heard Tosetti was going to be in town, they were quick to extend an invitation.

Two years before his 1926 visit to the city, Ruth played in an exhibition game in Spokane on Oct. 17, 1924, and hit two home runs, according to The Spokesman-Review’s reporting at the time.

“We thought it was only fitting because Babe Ruth also was here at the stadium before,” said Otto Klein, Indians senior vice president. “(Tosetti is) obviously a great ambassador to the Ruth family … and for baseball.”



Tosetti is often asked to make appearances like these, and she said she always obliges.

“To remember my grandfather,” she said. “It’s an honor to be asked, and I uphold and protect the legacy fiercely. And my grandfather, he never said no.”

Originally published in the Spokesmen Review on July 19th, 2019.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/jul/19/linda-ruth-tosetti-granddaughter-of-babe-ruth-shar/