Babe Ruth Biography

George Herman Ruth was one of the most acclaimed athletes of his time. Still it remains the greatest baseball player, a legend in American culture.

Ruth began his professional baseball career as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox (Red Sox). Before the sale to the Yankees, Ruth won 89 games over six seasons. Babe Ruth got his first home run record in 1920 when he hit 54 in a season. After defied critics who said that the record could not be broken, and hit 59 homers the following year. They were unthinkable number for the time. At the end of his career, Babe Ruth had hit 714 home runs, a record that would last many years and became a legend of the game.
 

When I was seven, George Herman Ruth was confined to St. Mary's Industrial School in Baltimore for repeated theft. Father Gilbert School later released him to pitch in the International League Baltimore Orioles and persuaded the manager-owner of the Orioles, Jack Dunn, to become the guardian of Ruth, Ruth adopting as his "Babe ".

 

In 1914 Ruth was acquired by the Red Sox sent to Providence, returned to Boston after emerging unscathed in 22 games. He won 18 games for the club of major league in 1915, following after 23 victories in 1916, and launched fully the longest game in World Series history that fall, a match of 14 innings to beat the Dodgers 2-1. Babe was first gardener in 1918 (though still enough to have launched 13 and 7 in 1918 and 9 and 5 the following year).

He left the mound in 1919, not counting five appearances cameo in the next 14 years, winning each of them, as the only man who has launched more than 1,000 entries and has a batting average above .300 lifetime (. 304).
 

In 1918 Ruth led the league in home runs (11) for the first time a record amount of 12 times. Harry Frazee, owner of the Red Sox and drowning in debt theatrical producer was forced to sell the Yankees that December.
 

Now playing their games at home in the cozy Polo Grounds, which they shared with the Giants Yankees, Ruth changed the game by hitting 54 homers; the rest of the American League had only 315. No one has approached his .847 slugging average, but himself the following year, when 846 registered mark.
 

Fans rushed to see him in his first year in New York, producing the first attendance of more than a million in baseball history and spurred the Yankees to build a Super Stadium in 1923, the legendary Yankee Stadium, which became known in the future as "The House that Ruth Built."
 

That year he hit .393 to lead the Yankees to their third straight pennant and first, the first of 22 World Series titles World Series.

He dominated the 1923 series, firing three home runs and batting .368. From 1926 to 1930, he led the league in home runs every year. The Yankees team of 1927 is probably considered the greatest baseball team in history, there are shared bats with figures such as Earle Combs, Lou Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri, all Hall of Fame. In the leadership of homers, tied with Lou in 1931. Three years later, Ruth asked the direction of the Yankees and was embarrassed when the owner Jacob Ruppert offered instead the main farm in New York.

He signed with the Braves and had a final moment of glory on May 25, 1935, by firing three homers in a game, one of them a prodigious homer over the right field roof at Forbes Field in Pittsburgh.
 

The Babe was removed a few weeks later with 714 homers, an average lifetime .342, and the highest slugging percentage in history (.690). It is possibly the most iconic baseball player in world history.
 

In 1936 at the inaugural ballot for the Hall of Fame he became one of the five founding members.