Babe
Ruth's most-widely recognized nicknames are
"The Sultan of Swat", "The King of Crash",
"The Colossus of Clout", "The Babe", and the
most known "The Great Bambino".
Other names included "the Wali of Wallop"
-say this one 5 times fast!, "the Rajah of
Rap", "the Caliph of Clout", "the Wazir of
Wham", "Maharajah of
Mash", The "Behemoth of Bust", and "The King of
Clout." |
| Babe Ruth is ranked 3rd all
time with 714 home runs. |
| Babe Ruth's .349 career batting average as a
Yankee is the highest in team history. |
| Babe Ruth's .349 career batting average as a
Yankee is the highest in team history. |
| Ruth won only one MVP award. It came in the
1923 season when he hit 41 home runs and had
a .393 batting average. |
| Ruth was an American League All-Star in
1934. |
| It was at Fenway Park that
Babe Ruth had his first home run of the
season on April 19, 1928. The fan who caught
the ball wrote a few lines on the side panel
of the ball after Ruth signed it for him. |
| A 1914
Baltimore News Babe Ruth Rookie Card sold
for $199,750 in 2007. |
| Babe was an American League All-Star in
1933. |
| Ruth had three primary nicknames: Babe, The
Sultan of Swat and The Bambino. |
| Ruth was undefeated as a Yankee pitcher. |
| In 1917 Babe won 24 games for the Boston Red
Sox as a pitcher. |
| In 1916 Babe won 23 games for the Red Sox as
a pitcher. |
| Ruth's Yankee team was nicknamed "Murderers'
Row" because of the offensive firepower. |
| Yankee Stadium is know as "The House That
Ruth Built." |
| Ruth hit one of baseball's most famous home
runs in it's long history. On October 1,
1932, during the fifth inning of the third
game of the World Series, Ruth pointed to
the stands of Wrigley Field before slugging
the ball to that very spot. This home run is
know as the "called shot." |
| Babe's first career home run was hit while
playing against the New York Yankees. |
| Was nicknamed Babe by the
Yankees manager
because he was so young when he started
playing baseball so he was the managers
child or Babe. |
| His real name is George Herman Ruth. |
| He grew up as a child right down the street
from where the Baltimore Orioles played
their home games. |
| Babe Ruth's jersey number (#3) was retired
by the New York Yankees on June 13, 1948. |
| In 1936, Ruth became one of the first five
players elected to the Baseball Hall of
Fame. |
| In 1969, he was named baseball's Greatest
Player Ever in a ballot commemorating the
100th anniversary of professional baseball. |
| The Red Sox were said to be cursed called
the Curse of the Bambino where they wouldn't
win the World Series again because they
traded him to the New York Yankees. It
worked up until the 2004 season where they
defeated the Yankees to get to the World
Series then beat the Cardinals to so call
"Reverse The Curse". |
| Babe Ruth played for the Boston Red Sox , New York
Yankees and Boston Braves. |
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