Babe+Ruth

media type="youtube" key="uS7Iq_I0i6M" height="344" width="425" One gray and dull morning in Baltimore, February 6th 1895 George Herman Ruth was born at a bar. He was the only one who survived being born other than his younger sister. At age 5 young George had been arrested over 4 times! In the next 2 years he was arrested another time and that was because he started being a wild boy. His father then sent him to Mary’s Industrial School For Boys. When he was only in his third week he became the best baseball player out of thirty kids. He was next asked to join the school’s baseball team. By the time he was 14 he could hit and throw farther than the other boys. At first he got drafted to the Orioles. He was then named Jack Dunn’s baby, because Jack Dunn was the manager at the time, and he treated him like his son. It was soon shortened to babe so that’s how Babe Ruth got his nickname. The time that he was on Jack’s team was only a half of a season. The other half of the season he was drafted to the Red Sox and then sent back down to the Minor Leagues to join the Providence Grays. The next and his first full season in the Major Leagues was with the Red Sox. He stayed with the Red Sox for the next 3 years as a pitcher. Then he got traded to the Yankees in 1920 and in his first season (and game) for the Yankees he hit two homers. He then kept a good batting record of .304 and hit 34 homers. He kept hitting home runs until people started calling him the Sultan of Swat, and the Great Bambino. In 1932 he made a record of 54 home runs in one season and 714 in his entire career. After the 1934 season Babe was traded to the Braves for his last season until retirement. The year that Babe was on the Red Sox he played with a vast number of great players some of them were named Ernie Shove, Carl Mays, Sam Crawford, Frank Baker, and Harry Hooper. Sadly even Babe Ruth who was a great player either struck out, grounded out, or a fly ball out, in the minor leagues 7 times (he only played half a season). In the major leagues he got out 23 times (the majority was in his last season before retirement. In one of his seasons for the Red Sox the end the results came to Babe Ruth hitting twenty nine home runs and the rest of his team only hitting four! That’s a lot for one person in those times! (As in the dead ball Era) When he finally got transferred to the Yankees (The team that he got famous with) his best friends on the team were Lou Gehrig, and Suzi Suzuki. Gehrig and Suzuki weren’t just his friends on the team but they were friends that almost always hung out with each other. As I said before that’s the team he made the record of 62 homers in one season and 714 in his entire career. Sadly every hero and great person has to pass away like Babe Ruth. After being elected for the Coopers Town Baseball Hall of Fame in 1942 he died from throat cancer on August 16 1948, 13 years after he retired.
 * __ Babe Ruth __**
 * By George **

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