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Baseball legend Babe Ruth plays Santa Claus during a 1947 Christmas party at the Hotel Astor<br />

in New York. <strong>The</strong> party was thrown by Sister Elizabeth Kenny for 65 young poliomyelitis<br />

victims including three-year-old Jimmy McCall, sat on Ruth’s knee, and Jane Greenfield<br />

Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images<br />

Derby County footballer Gerry Ryan does a spot of Christmas shopping in the Debenhams toy<br />

department<br />

Photograph: Popperfoto/Getty Images<br />

Willie Mays, the San Francisco Giants centrefielder, shows his baseball Christmas tree to twoyear-old<br />

Lorie Anne, a patient at the Children’s Hospital of the East Bay in Oakland, California.<br />

<strong>The</strong> tree, with 20 autographed balls representing every National and American League team,<br />

was among 200 unusual Christmas trees donated to the hospital

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