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...
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