Babe Ruth

George Herman Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. He is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1946, he became ill with nasopharyngeal cancer and died from the disease two years later. Ruth remains a part of American culture, and in 2018 President Donald Trump posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

About Babe Ruth in brief

George Herman Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. He is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. Ruth established many MLB batting records, including career home runs, runs batted in , bases on balls, slugging percentage, and on-base plus slugging ; the last two still stand as of 2019. In 1946, he became ill with nasopharyngeal cancer and died from the disease two years later. Ruth remains a part of American culture, and in 2018 President Donald Trump posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Ruth’s parents, Katherine and George Herman Ruth Sr. were both of German ancestry. His paternal grandparents were from Prussia and Hanover. Only one of young Ruth’s seven siblings, Mamie, survived his childhood. Ruth was sent to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory where he was mentored by Brother Matthias Boutlier of the Xaverian Brothers, the school’s disciplinarian and a capable baseball player. In 1914, Ruth was signed to play minor-league baseball for the Baltimore Orioles but was soon sold to the Red Sox. In 1916, he had built a reputation as an outstanding pitcher who sometimes hit long home runs, a feat unusual for any player in the pre-1920 dead-ball era. The trade fueled Boston’s subsequent 86-year championship drought and popularized the \”Curse of the Bambino\” superstition.

In his 15 years with the Yankees, Ruth helped the team win seven American League pennants and four World Series championships. After his retirement as a player, he was denied the opportunity to manage a major league club, most likely due to poor behavior during parts of his playing career. He retired from the game the following year, after a short stint with the Boston Braves. During his career, Ruth led the AL in home runs during a season 12 times. His big swing led to escalating home run totals that not only drew fans to the ballpark and boosted the sport’s popularity but also helped usher in baseball’s live-ballera, which evolved from a low-scoring game of strategy to a sport where the home run was a major factor. As a child, Ruth spoke German, but by the time he was six years old he was given up because he was a saloon owner and given up supervision by the saloon’s owner, George Sr. The elder Ruth then became a counterman in a family-owned combination grocery and saloon business on Frederick Street. The younger Ruth was a lightning rod salesman and streetcar operator. In 1999, according to Julia Stevens’ autobiography, Ruth’s father had an upstairs apartment at 426 West Camden Street, where he lived with his wife and three children. Ruth died of cancer in 1946, at the age of 48. He was buried in Baltimore, Maryland, in a plot of land owned by his maternal grandfather.

Related posts:

Ruth Norman Ruth Bader Ginsburg Ben Paschal Pablo Sandoval