Babe Ruth was and still is one of the most influential baseball players in American history. He shows many different examples of being a leader throughout his whole baseball career, starting at a very young age. Without Ruth, any of the teams he has ever played on wouldn’t have been as successful as they are today without his huge effort and willingness to the teams.
George Ruth was born on February 6th, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland along with 2 parents and 8 other siblings, unfortunately 6 of them died young. George grew up playing baseball starting at a very young age in his schooling years, he was influenced by Brother Matthias who was his coach. (biography.com) George knew from the start he wanted to continue to play baseball and hopefully one day pursue his baseball dreams. George was a leader and that meant something big to the all the teams he had ever played on his whole baseball career, they couldn’t have done it without him. Therefore, all the accomplishments he made in his career, he soon would become the young man to
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The coach of the Boston Red Sox signed George to play on his first ever major league baseball team, from that day on George would continue to become a better pitcher by the days to come. (biography.com) The first day of practice was when George got the name of “Babe Ruth” and it would stick throughout his whole life. The Field that George had played on would soon be named “the house that Ruth built” as he helped lead the team to the 1918 title. (school.eb.com) After that year George got a $100,000 offer to play for the New York Yankees, he continued to break records and hit 60 home runs in one season. After breaking so many records, George would soon be the number one baseball player America had ever seen. (school.eb.com) Without everything George had done at such a young time, baseball wouldn’t be the same sport it is today without his influential