Ruth, Babe George Herman "Babe" Ruth, b. Baltimore,
Md., Feb. 6, 1895, d. Aug. 16, 1948, was one of
professional baseball's greatest sluggers and probably the
best-known player of the 1920s and early 1930s. As a New
York Yankee, Ruth took the game out of the dead-ball era,
saved it from the Black Sox scandal of 1919, and
single-handedly revitalized the sport as the country's national
pastime. He teamed with Lou Gehrig to form what became
the greatest one-two hitting punch in baseball and was the
heart of the 1927 Yankees, a team regarded by some
baseball experts as the best in baseball history. Nicknamed
the Sultan of Swat, Ruth started his major league career as a
left-handed pitcher with the Boston Red Sox in 1914. In
158 games for Boston he compiled a pitching record of 89
victories and 46 losses, including two 20-win seasons--23
wins in 1916 and 24 wins in 1917. He eventually added 5
more wins as a Yankee hurler and ended his pitching career
with a 2.28 earned......
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