Babe Ruth Research Paper

George Herman ''Babe'' Ruth Jr. Was a professional baseball player whose career in major league baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. Babe played his first major league game on July 11, 1914. Babe Ruth was an outstanding baseball player. One of his sayings were ''I swing with everything I got, I hit big and I miss big. I like to live as big as I can- Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth is without a doubt the most famous character ever produced by the sport of baseball. A legendary world famous for his hitting prowless he transcended the sport to enter the mainstream of American life as an authentic folk hero. It was while with the Orioles, a veteran team populated by numerous former major leaguers, that Ruth was given his famous nickname.

Ruth is the only player since the turn of the twentieth century to lead his league in triple crown categories as both a hitter and also a pitcher and he did this accomplishment in only a span of three years. Babe had a three year contract that costed a total of ten thousand dollars. The Red Socks three years earlier respond by selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees on January third, nineteen twenty for one hundred thousand and also a three hundred thousand loan secured by mortgage7 on Fenway park. Babe Ruth hit five hundred and seventy five home runs after breaking conner's record. Only nine players have hit that many in there entire career8 since, the ones that did were steroid users. Babe hit an outstanding amount of two hundred and fifty nine home runs in twelve seasons at the New York Yankees stadium. Second only to Mickey Mantle's two hundred and sixty six which he got that total amount in a total of eighteen combined season which was six more seasons than Babe Ruth got his record9

Babe Ruth was really young when he first got signed to play professional baseball he was at the age of nineteen. Tons of people all over the world asked why babe their was all kinds of questions like is it because he is so young when he signed to play professional baseball. Babe was required to have legal guardianship and was then adopted by one of the monks. Other people across the united states of America say it was just because he was merely a babe. Babe Ruth played for three different teams when he played baseball. Babe was an outstanding player and a good team mate and strived to make his team better because when babe was apart of his baseball team the team highly excelled at the game of baseball because when Babe Ruth played the great game of baseball he has over four world series championship wins under his belt. One time durning a game Babe was knocked out cold at griffen stadium playing in the state of virgina washington D.C. He got knocked out unconscious because he was running full speed and then he suddenly ran in to a solid concreate wall when he was trying to catch a foul ball. Babe Ruth had one of the best possible farewell games in baseball history because on that day he had hit a amazing three home runs in a single game. Babe then retired literally the next week. Babe Ruth retired from the sport of baseball in the year of nineteen thirty five and was then inducted in