BALTIMORE -- A couple of dozen well-wishers gathered in front of the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum on this balmy Baltimore Saturday morning to give local triathlete and recovering stroke victim Chris Conlon and his biking team a royal sendoff. They embarked on a more than 300-mile, five-day journey from Baltimore to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
A devoted Babe Ruth enthusiast who worked for 10 years as a volunteer at the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum, Conlon is on a mission to help turn the baseball field at the former St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys -- where Babe Ruth learned to play the game -- into a national park and historic landmark.