The King and the Sultan

August 16, 1948: George Herman "Babe" Ruth dies of throat cancer in New York. He was 53 years old. August 16, 1977: Elvis Presley dies of a drug-aided heart attack in Memphis. He was 42. Recently, on Facebook, I saw somebody compare Elvis, the King of Rock and Roll, the greatest of all popular singers; to the Babe, the Sultan of Swat, the greatest of all baseball players. Actually, the Babe and…