According to the New York Times, Babe Ruth hit “the longest non-stop flight of an object or person leaving Sing Sing” prison in 1929.

Here are some accounts of the Yankees versus the Sing Sing Inmates games. It started at the turn of the century when an enlightened warden took over and introduced recreation and baseball to the prison yard.

And this is a heart melting picture of the warden’s daughter with the inmate team!

• footnote via Joe Crawford. 

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