Babe Ruth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American baseball player
Date of Birth: 06-Feb-1895
Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Date of Death: 16-Aug-1948
Profession: baseball player
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Babe Ruth
- George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr.
- (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935.
- Nicknamed "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees.
- Ruth established many MLB batting (and some pitching) records, including career home runs (714), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on balls (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (OPS) (1.164); the last two still stand as of 2019.
- Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time.
- In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members. At age seven, Ruth was sent to St.
- Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory where he was mentored by Brother Matthias Boutlier of the Xaverian Brothers, the school's disciplinarian and a capable baseball player.
- In 1914, Ruth was signed to play minor-league baseball for the Baltimore Orioles but was soon sold to the Red Sox.
- By 1916, he had built a reputation as an outstanding pitcher who sometimes hit long home runs, a feat unusual for any player in the pre-1920 dead-ball era.
- Although Ruth twice won 23 games in a season as a pitcher and was a member of three World Series championship teams with the Red Sox, he wanted to play every day and was allowed to convert to an outfielder.
- With regular playing time, he broke the MLB single-season home run record in 1919. After that season, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold Ruth to the Yankees amid controversy.
- The trade fueled Boston's subsequent 86-year championship drought and popularized the "Curse of the Bambino" superstition.
- In his 15 years with the Yankees, Ruth helped the team win seven American League (AL) pennants and four World Series championships.
- His big swing led to escalating home run totals that not only drew fans to the ballpark and boosted the sport's popularity but also helped usher in baseball's live-ball era, which evolved from a low-scoring game of strategy to a sport where the home run was a major factor.
- As part of the Yankees' vaunted "Murderers' Row" lineup of 1927, Ruth hit 60 home runs, which extended his MLB single-season record by a single home run.
- Ruth's last season with the Yankees was 1934; he retired from the game the following year, after a short stint with the Boston Braves.
- During his career, Ruth led the AL in home runs during a season 12 times. During Ruth's career, he was the target of intense press and public attention for his baseball exploits and off-field penchants for drinking and womanizing.
- After his retirement as a player, he was denied the opportunity to manage a major league club, most likely due to poor behavior during parts of his playing career.
- In his final years, Ruth made many public appearances, especially in support of American efforts in World War II.
- In 1946, he became ill with nasopharyngeal cancer and died from the disease two years later.
- Ruth remains a part of American culture, and in 2018 President Donald Trump posthumously awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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