Essay Archive - The Life Of Babe Ruth
The Life Of Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth, born George Ruth, Jr., is considered by many to be the
greatest baseball player of all time. Everybody knows how great a hitter Babe
was and how he virtually invented the home run. Not everybody knows how great
of a pitcher Babe was, even though he was one of the best left-handed pitchers
of all time. Babe had a 92 and 44 record, 67.6%, and a 2.24 career earned- run
average in 163 games pitched. Not many career .342 hitters that averaged a home
run every 11.8 at bats can say that.
George Ruth, Jr. was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 6, 1895,
son of George Herman Ruth, Sr. ....
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