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

As the twenties grew older, and as radio broadcasts of baseball games began to involve more and more people daily in the doings of the professionals, the great hitters ( always led by Babe Ruth ) overshadowed the game so that pitchers were nearly of no account.

Babe Ruth, as he always did in the Stadium, played right field to avoid having the sun in his eyes, and Tommy Thevenow, a rather mediocre hitter who played shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, knocked a ball with all his might into the sharp angle formed by the permanent stands and the wooden bleachers, where Ruth could not reach it.

Mazeroski, whose homer beat the Yankees in the final series game, will receive the Babe Ruth Award as the outstanding player in the 1960 world series.

This, of course, is baseball's most remarkable mark: The 60 home runs hit in 1927 by the incorrigible epicure, the incredible athlete, George Herman ( Babe ) Ruth of the Yankees.

The Abner Doubleday Little League and Babe Ruth Fields in Ballston Spa, New York, the town of his birth.

* 1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

With the famous facade, the short right field porch and Monument Park, Yankee Stadium has been home to many of baseball's greatest players including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Whitey Ford, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson, Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Alex Rodriguez.

But the tactic fell into relative disuse after Babe Ruth introduced the era of the home run – in 1955, for example, no one in baseball stole more than 25 bases, and Dom DiMaggio won the AL stolen base title in 1950 with just 15.

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 ).

During World War II, Japanese soldiers would yell in English, " To hell with Babe Ruth ", in order to anger American soldiers.

An episode of Hawaii Five-O would be named " To Hell With Babe Ruth " because of that.

* The Babe Ruth Award is an annual award given to the Major League Baseball ( MLB ) player with the best performance in the World Series.

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 Home Run Award is an annual award presented to the leading home run hitter in MLB.

* Babe Ruth Field is a ballpark in Ventura, California, that was located at the Ventura County Fairgrounds and was used as a minor-league park from 1948 to 1955.

* The Babe Ruth League is named in Babe Ruth's honor.

Birthplace of Babe Ruth

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.

The property was restored and opened to the public in 1974, by the non-profit Babe Ruth Birthplace Foundation, Inc. Ruth's widow, Claire, his two daughters, Dorothy and Julia, and his sister, Mamie, helped select and install exhibits that depict the life and times of Babe Ruth.

During the course of his career, he took part of some of the most memorable events in Major League Baseball history including ; Babe Ruth's Called Shot during the 1932 World Series, Carl Hubbell's strike out performance in the 1934 All-Star Game and Dizzy Dean's career-altering injury during the 1937 All-Star Game.

In 1937, the golf course hosted a charity game between John Montague, Babe Ruth, Babe Didrikson, and Sylvania Annenberg, a game that was watched by 10, 000 fans, some of whom rushed the golf course and left Babe Ruth's shirt in tatters.

A biopic of his life, The Babe, was released in 1992 and starred John Goodman in the title role.

The season began with long-time backup George Ratterman at quarterback, but Babe Parilli took his place when the starter was injured.

After Maris broke Babe Ruth's home run record, Lane defended himself by saying he still would have done the deal because Maris was unknown and he received good ballplayers in exchange.

He was 3rd in the AL in slugging percentage (. 600 ) – behind Jimmie Foxx and Lou Gehrig, but ahead of Babe Ruth, and in RBIs ( 139 ), 6th in batting average (. 339 ), 7th in home runs ( 26 ), and 9th in on base percentage (. 404 ).

A prodigious home run hitter, Greenberg narrowly missed breaking Babe Ruth's single-season home run record in 1938, when he was again voted to the All-Star Team and hit 58 home runs, leading the league for the second time.

His most notable achievement was breaking the career home run record set by Babe Ruth.

But in his final game that year, playing against the Houston Astros ( led by manager Leo Durocher, who had once roomed with Babe Ruth ), he was unable to achieve this.

One of the first relevant successful covers was Wynonie Harris's transformation of Roy Brown's 1947 original jump blues hit " Good Rocking Tonight " into a more showy rocker and the Louis Prima rocker " Oh Babe " in 1950, as well as Amos Milburn's cover of what may have been the first white rock and roll record, Hardrock Gunter's " Birmingham Bounce " in 1949.

During the last glacial period, present-day Slovenia was inhabited by Neanderthals ; the most famous Neanderthal archeological site in Slovenia is a cave close to the village of Šebrelje near Cerkno, where the Divje Babe flute, the oldest known musical instrument in the world was found in 1995.

Their last appearance together was on Late Night with David Letterman on November 13, 1987, when they sang " I Got You Babe ".

Saul was one of his mother's four brothers, as well as a former semi-pro baseball player who had pitched against Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Joe Gordon in an exhibition game.

Even though there was not a Rookie of the Year award yet in 1939, Babe Ruth declared Williams to be the Rookie of the Year, to which Williams later said was " good enough for me ".

While on the baseball team, Williams was sent back to Fenway Park on July 13, 1943 to play on an All-Star team managed by Babe Ruth.

His hero, Babe Ruth, is at first condescending and dismissive of the rookie ; but his strong, consistent play wins over Ruth and the rest of the team, and before long Gehrig is joining his teammates in playing pranks on Ruth on the team train.

During the 1920s the greatest American sports hero of the day was undoubtedly Babe Ruth ; his closest rival was Dempsey, a tough heavyweight boxer from the mining West.

Bobby says he wants to marry Babe ; everyone else thinks he's a football hero, but she knows who he really is.

When JR returns home after running off to join the Merchant Marines after news of his mother's death, Jr surprises everyone by presenting to them his new wife, Babe, a pretty blonde he met in port in San Diego.

That night, Babe ( yet unknown to everyone in Pine Valley ) attends a party and becomes very drunk and has sex with JR's stepbrother, Jamie.

Babe doesn't believe this and provides Zoe with safety under her roof and fights back against those who try to harm Zoe, and helps her come out to everyone.

Babe insists that they can't let school depress them and teaches everyone the latest dance, " The Varsity Drag ".