George Herman Ruth, Jr. formally known as "Babe" Ruth was an American Major League baseball player from 1914-1935. He started as a starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and then was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, in which he converted to a full-time right fielder. He then became one the league's most prolific hitters. Babe Ruth won seven pennants and four world series titles during his tenure with the New York Yankees.
Ruth since become regarded as one of the greatest sports heros in American Culture. He has been named the greatest baseball player in the history in various surveys and rankings, and his home run hitting prowess and charismatic personality made him a larger than life figure in the roaring twenties. Ruth was the first person to hit 60 home runs in one season(1927), setting the season record which stood until broken by Roger Maris in 1961. Ruth's lifetime total of 714 home runs at his retirement in 1935. Ruth also hit for average: his .342 lifetime batting is tenth highest in baseball history, and in one season he hit .393, a Yankee record. His .690 career slugging percentage and 1.164 career on-base plus slugging remain major league records.
In 1998, The Sporting News ranked Ruth number one on the list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players." In 1999, baseball fans named Ruth to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. In 1969, he was named baseball's Greatest Player Ever in a ballot commemorating the 100th anniversary of professional baseball and in 1993, he was reported to be tied with Muhammad Ali as the most recognized althletes, out 1000, in America.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth
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