joe rosen filed this report in 1985. >> reporter: baseball's babe ruth. a legend who crushed 60 home runs in a single season. >> the king of baseball. >> reporter: loved children. was larger than life. fans loved him. and the legend was a lefty. he grew famous as a yankee but grew up in baltimore. played for st. mary's industrial school. now a statute stands tall in the hero's hometown. it importallizes the babe, but wait he's holding a glove only a right hander would use. >> no one noticed in fact, the information that was supplied to me mostly came through the babe ruth museum. >> it came about innocently. the artist was working on a period glove who she thought was ruth's actual glove. experts missed the mistake on model after model. even after considering every conceivable detail. the kind of socks, the angle of the cap. finally this winter they discovered the flaw. by then it was too late. the clay model was about to be dipped in bronze. >> 800 pounds of clay on a welder, it would have meant tearing the arm off really to replace that glove because it