It was June 1902 all over again. It wouldn’t have been so painful if he hadn’t made the mistake of conflating fans and family. “As much as he surrounded himself with people, I think he was alone,” said his granddaughter Donna Analovitch. “He couldn’t get enough of people, but I don’t know if he was ever attached to anything other than his fans and the game. And I don’t think he had to have it because he was an egomaniac. I think he had to have it . . . for that sense of family. “I think Babe was a window-wisher. You look at other people’s lives and you wish. You’re in a car, you drive by a
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