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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