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  • George Herman "Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major ...
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  • season home run record of Yankee immortal Babe Ruth in 1961. After Mantle became ... such prolific home run hitters as Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Tony Lazzeri ...
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  • When Mantle finished second to Roger Maris in the pursuit of Babe ... Mantle and teammate Roger Maris chased Babe Ruth's single season home ...
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  • the most revered record in baseball--Babe Ruth's career home run ... home run list behind Willie Mays and Babe Ruth. At the end of the season ...
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  • Cardinals to a World Series victory over Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees ... [[Image:Ruth1926-3.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Hornsby tags out Babe Ruth ...
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  • year he switched to first base; like Babe Ruth, he was too good a hitter ... doubles and triples, as well as second to Babe Ruth in RBIs and homers. ...
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  • Gehrig batted right behind the storied Babe Ruth and added to Ruth's ... hits that season were second all-time to Babe Ruth’s 119 extra base hits ...
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  • Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, and Babe Ruth. He won the National League ... with Ozzie Smith, Cal Ripken Jr., and Babe Ruth, state their reasons for ...
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  • the stadium opened in April 18, 1923 with Babe Ruth as the star player. The ... In 1921, the Yankees and Babe Ruth were outdrawing their counterparts ...
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  • he was often called the right-handed Babe Ruth and ended his big-league ... 534 home runs placed him second only to Babe Ruth on the all-time list, and ...
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  • many years earlier into a eulogy for Babe Ruth ("Game called by darkness ... impressed him, most notably Jack Dempsey, Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden ...
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  • * 1961 Babe Ruth Award * New York Yankees #16 retired |hofdate=1974 ... walks, and strikeouts. In 1961, he broke Babe Ruth's World Series record ...
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  • Touted by sportswriters as Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Shoeless Joe Jackson ... While not the "party animal" Babe Ruth was, he had his fun, leaving ...
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  • the off-season with a barnstorming group led by Babe Ruth. Barnstorming gave Paige the opportunity to test himself against white baseball players--in ...
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  • his playing prime before the emergence of Babe Ruth, Cobb's legacy as ... By 1920, Babe Ruth had established himself as a power hitter, something ...
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  • records of his career that still exist. Babe Ruth is quoted as saying, "I ... amount of the previous record set by a Babe Ruth bat that sold for $320 ...
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  • * Babe Ruth Award: 1966 * Cincinnati Reds #20 retired * Baltimore Orioles ... best in history (behind only Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, and Willie Mays), though ...
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  • in Germany, Greenberg was vying to break Babe Ruth's home run record ... During 1938 Greenberg was in pursuit of Babe Ruth's home run ...
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  • Speaker, Walter Johnson, and most of all Babe Ruth brought the AL more publicity ... players it has produced, including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio ...
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  • [[Image:Babe Ruth Gov.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Smith golfing with baseball great Babe Ruth in Coral Gables, Fla. (1930) – State Archive of Florida]] ...
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  • its stars began to impact the news world. Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees ... He covered exceptional athletes like Babe Ruth, Knute Rockne, and Bobby ...
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  • George Herman "Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major ...
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  • third all-time in home runs (behind Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx), seventh ... Williams was also second to Ruth in career slugging percentage, where ...
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  • #039; Row lineup, which included Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Earle ... Herb Hunter arranged for a group of All-Stars, including Babe Ruth ...
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  • where she had gone to see her favorite player, Babe Ruth. She and Manley married in 1935. Abe had made money through a number of successful investments ...
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  • Red Grange, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Babe Ruth. He won fans with his penchant for drama and with his wide array of shots. His outright dominance ...
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  • Series. The Red Sox were led by pitcher Babe Ruth, who was playing in his ... damaging to the Red Sox than the sale of Babe Ruth more than four years later ...
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  • of his retirement. He was second only to Babe Ruth in American League (AL ... 16 Greatest Home Run Hitters from Babe Ruth to Mark McGwire (Champaign ...
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  • He ranked with Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey in the 1920s as the most heralded figures in America's "golden age of sport." When Sports ...
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  • as the Yankees' right fielder by Babe Ruth." With baseball out of the picture for Halas, he turned to the academic degree he had received ...
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  • Unitas donated his Colts memorabilia to the Babe Ruth Museum in Baltimore. These items are now on display in the Sports Museum at Camden Yards. ...
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  • face style made him as popular a figure as Babe Ruth or Red Grange, who were huge, charismatic figures in their time. Dempsey's swagger and brash ...
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  • thing since [New York Yankees baseball legend] Babe Ruth. I think he is anyway." With his eye-catching dribbling and unorthodox passing, ...
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  • Hank Greenberg was two home runs short of Babe Ruth's then-single-season ... of his induction, only Ty Cobb (98.2%), Babe Ruth (95.1%), and Honus Wagner ...
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  • American sports scene, along with baseball's Babe Ruth, boxing's Jack Dempsey, American football's Red Grange, and tennis player Bill Tilden ...
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  • larger-than-life players, above all Babe Ruth, perhaps the grandest figure ... the rise of the legendary baseball player Babe Ruth, who became the first power ...
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  • jpg|thumb|right|4005px|"The House that [[Babe Ruth|Ruth]] Built": Yankee Stadium in the Bronx]] Although football has become the most ...
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  • he never used the books of Chronicles, Ruth, Esther, 2 Maccabees, 2 John ... id=u584DAAAQBAJ&pg=PT168 Shivering Babe, Glorious Lord: The Nativity ...
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  • Scalia enjoyed a warm friendship with fellow Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ... to award Medal of Freedom to Elvis, Babe Ruth, among others"] CNN ...
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  • have become the second player, after Babe Ruth, with 2,000 RBI, and would ... there-were-willie-stan-and-babe "Once There Were Willie ...
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  • html Cap Anson 4: Bigger Than Babe Ruth: Captain Anson of Chicago.] Arlington, Va.: Tile Books, 2006. *Sunday, Billy. The Sawdust Trail: Billy ...
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  • and suffragette. He was born on the day that Babe Ruth hit his first home run. At eighteen months, Welles was declared a child prodigy by Dr. Maurice ...
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  • to Lindberg … (and) also … like Babe Ruth," and is also representative of the United States dedication to "progress and the 'new ...
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