a Short Biography Of The Great Babe Ruth

One of the most famous, most popular baseball player in the USA, if not the entire world is the legendary George Herman Ruth, Jr. He had many nicknames including but not limited to, the Babe and the great Bambino. He is the number one player in the history of the game according to many.



Babe was a native of Maryland, his parents were Kate Schamberger Ruth and George Herman Ruth. He was too much for his parents to handle when he was a youngster, so they decided to send him to St Mary's Industrial School for boys, a Catholic orphanage where he spent the next twelve years of his life. It was in that school where he met Brother Matthias who developed his interest in playing the game of baseball. Brother Matthias taught Babe all aspects of the game including hitting, fielding and pitching.

The first team Ruth played for was the Boston Red Sox, where he started his career as a starting pitcher. He won eighty nine games and lost only forty six as a starter for the Sox. The owner of the Red Sox sold Babe to the New York Yankees in the off-season of 1919-1920. The Red Sox never won a World Serious after that until the year 2004 when they broke what was known as the curse of the Bambino. Ruth turned The New York Yankees into one of the most successful franchises in the history of sports. Babe, mostly played the outfield for the Yankees, and lead the team into seven American League Pennants and four World Series titles in the fifteen years he played for them.

Ruth broke many baseball records throughout his amazing career, starting in 1919 where he set a single season home run record of 29 runs. That was just the beginning of many more records to come. In 1920, he hit 54 home runs, and added five more home runs (59 in total) to his record setting in the very next year. Six years later he broke his own record once again by hitting 60 home runs in a single season, a record that stood for 34 years. Ruth hit 714 home runs in his career, while setting many of the game's slugging records, including highest slugging percentage (.847), most years leading the league in hitting home (12), most total bases in a single season (457). Ruth officially retired from baseball in 1935 and was inducted to the Hall of Fame in 1936.

Ruth also made an appearance in several motion pictures and he evolved into an increasingly popular media figure. He appeared in the silent  films Speedy and Pride of the Yankees.

Ruth's health started going down hill in 1946 when he was diagnosed with cancer. He had a malignant tumor that spread over his neck and his left carotid artery. The legendary Ruth passed away, two years after that diagnosis, leaving most of his estate to the Babe Ruth Foundation for underprivileged children

The great Bambino was elected as  baseball's Greatest Player Ever in 1969, on the hundredth anniversary of professional baseball. He was also ranked No.1 in the list of Baseball's 100 Greatest Players by The Sporting News in 1998.

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