He was ghost writer for Babe Ruth, whose main talent for literary composition was the signing of his autograph.

Babe Ruth, of course, was everyone's hero, and everyone knew him, even though relatively few ever saw him play ball.

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

Lou Gehrig was given the nickname Buster, and he ran Ruth a close race in home runs.

But the nickname never stuck and Gehrig was no match for Ruth in `` color '' -- which is sometimes a polite word for delinquent behavior on and off the field.

Ruth was a delinquent boy still, but he was in every way a great ball player who was out to win the game and occasionally risked a cracked bone to do it.

In his minor way Charles Arthur Shires was perhaps more typical of his era than Ruth was, for he was but one of many young men who laid waste their talents in these Scott Fitzgerald days for the sake of earning space in the newspapers.

This was most obvious in the ' Culture and Personality ' studies carried out by younger Boasians such as Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict.

Boas had planned for Ruth Benedict to succeed him as chair of Columbia's anthropology department, but she was sidelined by Ralph Linton, and Mead was limited to her offices at the AMNH.

Arbroath Abbey was the basis for the description of the ruined monastery of St Ruth in Sir Walter Scott's The Antiquary.

George Herman Ruth, Jr. ( February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948 ), best known as " Babe " Ruth and nicknamed " the Bambino " and " the Sultan of Swat ", was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball ( MLB ) playing for three teams ( 1914 – 1935 ).

Ruth originally entered the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox as a starting pitcher, but after he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, he converted to a full-time right fielder.

Ruth was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season ( 1927 ), a mark first eclipsed by Roger Maris in 1961 with 61.

Ruth was mentioned in the poem " Line-Up for Yesterday " by Ogden Nash:

Another rules change that affected Ruth was the method used by umpires to judge potential home runs when the batted ball left the field near a foul pole.

The most valuable memorabilia item relating to Ruth was a 1920-era Yankees flannel jersey which sold in May 2012 for $ 4. 4 million, making it the most valuable piece of sports memorabilia ever sold at public auction.

The award, created by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America ( BBWAA ) in honor of Babe Ruth, was first awarded in 1949, one year after Ruth's death.

The Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum is located at 216 Emory Street, a Baltimore row house in which Ruth was born and which is three blocks west of Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

His decision was primarily a financial decision since a child born to Ruth through the union would inherit Elimelech's land, and he would not be reimbursed for the money he paid Naomi.

Second, through the genealogy it is shown that the son born to Ruth is more than just a gift from God to continue her lineage.

Keillor was born in Anoka, Minnesota, the son of Grace Ruth ( née Denham ) and John Philip Keillor, who was a carpenter and postal worker .< ref >

Alexander was born Jay Scott Greenspan in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Jewish parents Ruth Minnie ( née Simon ), a nurse and health care administrator, and Alexander B. Greenspan, an accounting manager.

They have two children, Travis Sedgwick Bacon ( born June 23, 1989 in Los Angeles, California ) and Sosie Ruth Bacon ( born March 15, 1992 ).

Their daughter Ruth ( 1901 – 1972 ) was born in December 1901.

Ruth Benedict ( born Ruth Fulton, June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948 ) was an American anthropologist and folklorist.

Ruth Benedict was born in New York City on June 5, 1887, to Beatrice and Frederick Fulton.

* July 13 – Ruth Ellis ( born 1926 ) is hanged for murder in London, becoming the last woman ever to be executed in the United Kingdom.

Milford H. Wolpoff ( born 1942 to Ruth ( Silver ) and Ben Wolpoff, Chicago ) is a paleoanthropologist, and since 1977, a professor of anthropology and adjunct associate research scientist, Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan.

George Smith Patton Jr. was born in San Gabriel, California in 1885, to George Smith Patton Sr. ( 1856 – 1927 ) and his wife Ruth Wilson ( 1861 – 1928 ), daughter of Benjamin Davis Wilson.

Eastwood was born in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood, Sr. ( 1906 – 70 ), a steelworker and migrant worker, and Margaret Ruth ( Runner ) Eastwood ( 1909 – 2006 ), a factory worker.

He was the son of Cornelius Howard and Ruth ( Eager ) Howard, of the Maryland planter elite and was born at their plantation " Belvedere ," which he inherited after their deaths.

* Ruth Badger ( born 1978 ), British reality television contestant and TV presenter

Brooke was born at 5 Hillmorton Road in Rugby, Warwickshire, the second of the three sons of William Parker Brooke, a Rugby schoolmaster, and Ruth Mary Brooke, née Cotterill.

Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known from early childhood as " Betty ", was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ruth Augusta " Ruthie " ( née Favor ) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney ; her sister, Barbara " Bobby ", was born October 25, 1909.

Givens was born in New York City, the daughter of Ruth Roper ( née Newby ) and Reuben Givens.

The ball lay there, shining white on the grass in view of nearly every fan in the park while Ruth, red-necked with frustration, charged about the small patch of ground screaming, `` Where's the -- -ing ball ''??

* Citizen Ruth, 1996 movie about abortion in the United States

One night Neville is startled awake and finds Ruth about to leave.

* Interview with Ruth Harris about her book Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion, And the Scandal of the Century ( 2010 ).

The " Soldier's Boot Camp " follows the actors as they take preparation for their roles to an extreme ( 30 minutes )), " One Hour Over Tokyo " and " The Unsung Heroes of Pearl Harbor ", two History Channel documentaries along with " Super-8 Montage ", a collection of unseen Super-8 footage shot for potential use in the movie by Michael Bay's assistant, Mark Palansky ; " Deconstructing Destruction ", an in-depth conversation with Michael Bay and Eric Brevig ( of Industrial Light and Magic ) about the special effects in the movie and " Nurse Ruth Erickson interview " complete the extra features component.

* Ruth Hyde Outdoor Program Center is about seven miles west of Grants Pass.

Ruth Stout ( 1884 – 1980 ), writer about organic gardening and author of " How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back ", lived on Poverty Hollow.

The production became one of the hits of the 1946 / 47 Broadway season, winning Ferrer the first Best Actor Tony Award for his depiction of the long-nosed poet / swordsman ( tied with Fredric March for Ruth Gordon's play about her own early years as an actress, Years Ago ).

Ruth Wood, a retired school teacher and farm wife characterizes Cresbard as " a place where we cannot lie about our age, our background or our school pranks.

This, as well as her grace and her chaste conduct during work, induced Boaz to inquire about the stranger, although he was not in the habit of inquiring after women ( Ruth Rabba to ii.

Ruth Park, author of The Harp in the South, contributed a number of iconic fictional works about urban living.

Ruth Handler believed that it was important for Barbie to have an adult appearance, and early market research showed that some parents were unhappy about the doll's chest, which had distinct breasts.

She first spoke in public about autism in the mid-1980s at the request of Ruth C. Sullivan, one of the founders of the Autism Society of America.

Historian Ruth Leiserowitz, who lived in Lithuania researched, and published books about the Wolfkinder of East Prussia under her maiden name Ruth Kibelka and her married name.

Ruth Fainlight has written dozens of poems about these ambiguous figures, bridging religion, classical and Biblical settings, femininity and modernity.

Ruth, who had already been shouting at umpire Brick Owens about the quality of his calls, became even angrier and, in short order, was ejected.

* Kate and Ruth Greenfield and Kristen Lang as Elora Danan: An infant princess that prophecy says will bring about Queen Bavmorda's downfall.

Seretse would not budge in his desire to marry Ruth ( which he did while exiled in Britain in 1948 ), and tribal opinion about the marriage basically split evenly along demographic lines-older people went with Tshekedi, the younger with Seretse.

Among the personalities the book talks about in depth are Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe Louis, Primo Carnera, Tony Canzoneri, Sugar Ray Robinson, Casey Stengel, Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Stillman, Jacob Ruppert and more.

Historians like Dr. Ruth Barrington, who had written extensively about Irish health policy and had access to the files from the 1940s and 1950s, questioned the book's reliability.

His grave is located about from the grave of Babe Ruth in Section 25.

* Stars and Stripes Forever ( film ), a 1952 biopic about John Philip Sousa, starring Clifton Webb, Debra Paget, Robert Wagner, and Ruth Hussey

With photographs by Ruth Bernhard, a book about life on San Francisco's cable cars.