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On this day in 1935, Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in thehistory of baseball, ends his Major League playing career after 22seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs. The following year, Ruth, alarger-than-life figure whose name became synonymous with baseball, wasone of the first five players inducted into the sport’s hall of fame.George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895, into a poor family inBaltimore. As a child, he was sent to St. Mary’s Industrial School forBoys, a school run by Roman Catholic brothers, where he learned to playbaseball and was a standout athlete. At 19, Ruth was signed by theBaltimore Orioles, then a Boston Red Sox minor league team. Ruth’sfellow teammates and the media began referring to him as team owner JackDunn’s newest “babe,ö a nickname that stuck. Ruth would later acquireother nicknames, including “The Sultan of Swatö and “The Bambino.öRuth made his Major League debut as a left-handed pitcher with the RedSox in July 1914 and pitched 89 winning games for the team before 1920,when he was traded to the New York Yankees. After Ruth left Boston, inwhat became known as “the curse of the Bambino,ö the Red Sox didn’t winanother World Series until 2004. In New York, Ruth’s primary positionchanged to outfielder and he led the Yankees to seven American Leaguepennants and four World Series victories. Ruth was a huge star in NewYork and attracted so many fans that the team was able to open a newstadium in 1923, Yankee Stadium, dubbed “The House That Ruth Built.öThe southpaw slugger’s final season, in 1935, was with the BostonBraves. He had joined the Braves with the hope that he’d become theteam’s manager the next season. However, this dream never came to passfor a disappointed Ruth, who had a reputation for excessive drinking,gambling and womanizing.Many of the records Ruth set remained in place for decades. His careerhomerun record stood until 1974, when it was broken by Hank Aaron.Ruth’s record of 60 homeruns in a single season (1927) of 154 gameswasn’t bested until 1961, when Roger Maris knocked out 61 homers in anextended season of 162 games. The Sultan of Swat’s career sluggingpercentage of .690 remains the highest in Major League history.Ruth died of throat cancer at age 53 on August 16, 1948, in New YorkCity. His body lay in state at Yankee Stadium for two days and wasvisited by over 100,000 fans.
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