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Babe Ruth Annotated Bibliography

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Joseph Knight

Babe Ruth

Mrs.Pinson

9/22/2014

1) Early years
2) Major league career
3) Retirement
4) Personal life
5) Memorial
6) Legacy

Joseph Knight
Mrs.Pinson
9/22/14
English 4
The Legend of Baseball
Even though Babe Ruth was given away as a child by his parents, he still became one of the all-time greats. He basically rewrote the major league record book, breaking all the hitting records and holding those records for a couple decades. Babes’ retirement was the end of a baseball legends career, though his legacy will never end. George struggled in his older years from fighting cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people came to Babes memorial. George Herman (The Babe) Ruth Jr. will forever be known as the greatest baseball …show more content…

Son of George Herman Ruth Sr. and Kate Schamberger Ruth. George Jr. was born on February 16, 1935. As a child young George Jr. was often home alone while his parents were off at work. He often would get in trouble for chewing Tabaco and drinking also he would tease police officers. After a few years of this George Sr. and Kate said they just couldn’t handle it anymore. So at the age of seven they decided to give little George to the catholic orphanage. Who now has full custody of him.
At the orphanage George wasn’t ever bullied since he was one of the bigger kids, also everyone seemed to like him he was a funny kid. His favorite thing to do was play baseball, a monk named brother Mathais would help him get better every day to keep him out of trouble at the school.
MAJOR LEAGUE CAREER
George was drafted to play for the Boston Red Sox. He was such a young player that all the other ball players began to mock him by calling him “Jacks new Babe”. Thus the start of Babe Ruth. After shattering record after record babe started to turn in to a king. No one around was as good of a hitter as him, nick names can flying from every directing. The sultan of swat , The great bambino, the caliph of clout, the behemoth of bust, the big …show more content…

That same record is one of the greatest ever in my eyes, 60 home runs before bats were engineered to work better and that record stayed for 34 years. You know someone means a lot when they died over 60 years ago and is still known as one of the greatest baseball players to ever live. It was said that during one of the hardest times in America he gave hope to so many, a man playing baseball brought hope to a whole nation. The great depression had nothing on the Babe. One of his quotes that will live on forever is, “I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or miss big. I like to live as big as I can.” – George Herman Ruth

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In this orphanage, young Ruth learned how to read and write and also took tailoring classes, but most importantly, he learned how to swing a baseball bat. In St. Mary’s, Brother Matthias was in charge of disciplining over eight hundred of the kids. Brother Matthias was also in charge of the physical education for the kids and baseball was mostly played at that time, so he would make different teams with the eight hundred kids having around forty teams in that single institution. Young Ruth had spotted brother Matthias playing baseball and he stated “I think I was born as a hitter the first day I ever saw him hit a baseball.

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Ruth who became a full-time outfielder was playing at his best helping his team whenever and wherever he can. He had unleashed a level of power that had never been seen before in the game of baseball. In 1919 while with the Red Sox, Ruth set a single-season home run record of 29. In 1920, his first year in New York, he knocked 54 home runs. Babe Ruth continued to create these records yet the athlete seemed determined to continue breaking his own records.

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He had put all of those threats aside and still had the bravery to break that record. That is who Hank Aaron is to me. How did he revolutionize how the game is played and what are his achievements? When Hank Aaron broke the home run record he had put aside all of the death threats and just played his own game.

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His skill attracted the attention of a man named Jack Dunn who was a coach in the Boston Red Sox organization. At the age of 19, he signed with the team and players began to call Ruth “Dunn’s new babe.” The nickname “Babe” stuck with him for the rest of his life. Babe Ruth went on to break just about every offensive record in baseball, won 7 World Series Championships, and Yankee Stadium was nicknamed “The House that Ruth Built.” He was the face of Major League Baseball, but more importantly, he represented all of America during the Roaring

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Following this Ruth revitalized the sport of baseball. During this time baseball was a ‘dying sport’, this didn’t mean that it was going away it just meant that it was losing popularity. The regular viewer believed it to be boring and long, as well as the negative image brought by the Black Sox cheating scandal in 1919. When the dual threat Babe Ruth

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Hank had two choices on how to handle all of these threats and all of the racism he suffered from, and he chose to rise above it and keep going. For instance, according to Bob Nightengale, “Henry took a lot of abuse when he broke that record, but he rose above all that.” (Nightengale, 1 ). One can see Nightengale asserts how Hank suffered from a lot of abuse, like racism and death threats, but he chose to rise above it and play the game, instead of letting them stopping him. Hank Aaron was given a choice on how to handle racism, and he rose above it.

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In the beginning of Babe’s career, he was known for his prodigious power as a slugger, he started his career as a pitcher. Also George got his nickname Babe because he was known as “Jack’s newest babe” and that’s where Babe came from. Some lessons babe learned from his very first years were that if you don’t play as much as you think then try to stay positive and try to pick another position that you would be good or have a better shot at playing the position in the future. Babe became an amazing player by switching to an outfielder when he didn’t pitch that day.

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Finishing his career, Ruth ended with a bang holding multiple records and making sure he stayed on top. The power and precision of his swing was rare and is why he was so successful as a professional baseball player. Transition: Ruth will always be a legend when it comes to the game of baseball and saving it from being put on the back burner of everyone’s

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“Babe” Ruth was immensely popular and had large crowds of people that would come see him every game. He had hit more than sixty home runs in 1927. Heros that the audiences loved consisted of a boxer named Jack Dempsey, a football player named jim thorpe, and a female swimmer named Gertrude Ederle. Jim thorpe started playing sports more often because during his college years. He arrived at a track and field practice, only to jump the 5’9’’ high jump, beating the school record (Biography.com, n.d.).

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Ruth not only set records in his time playing baseball but also made the game livelier, and improved the radio fan’s listening experience. Babe Ruth is a man who will never be forgotten about in

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Babe was a warm hearted baseball player, and loved to help children in any ways that he could. Often times, Babe was to be found helping out at hospitals or orphanages making sick and lonely children happy as can be. Babe Ruth also donated money to the orphanages as well hospitals, since he cared about children so much. The Great Bambino was also a huge role model to children since he made such positive impact on everyone around him, and was a great person in general. Many children from the 20’s wanted to be just like Babe because of his generosity and his skills in baseball.

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