His high-profile estrangement and then divorce from Adrianne Allen was the inspiration for Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin's script for the film Adam's Rib ( 1949 ), starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, and indeed Massey ended up marrying the lawyer who represented him in court, Dorothy Whitney, while his then ex-wife Allen married the opposing lawyer, William Dwight Whitney.

Always proficient with the bat, he embarked on a second career ; like his former teammate Babe Ruth, Wood ended his career as an outfielder.

Ruth ended his note with the phrase " Veni, vidi, vici.

The Red Sox won the World Series for the first time since, which ended the " Curse of the Bambino ," a curse that was supposed to have been inflicted on the team when Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees in 1919.

After he came back, Ruth and Logan ended up stranded on an island during a storm, and were forced to shelter for the night in a gazebo.

If he had made a gesture like that, well, anybody who knows me knows that Ruth would have ended up on his ass.

Mr. Mertle, whose career ended after a hit by a stray pitch blinded him, agrees to give Smalls a ball signed by Murderers ' Row – several of the best Yankee hitters in the late 1920s ( including Ruth ).

His co-stars were Ruth McDevitt as his wife ; Ann Sheridan as his daughter ( who died in real life two months before the series ended ), and Gary Vinson as Sheriff Harold Sikes.

" He had also had a marriage to Ruth Chatterton that ended within two years and a marriage to Constance Worth that lasted two weeks.

Her marriage ended in divorce because Philippe had an extramarital affair with the lawyer Ruth Zendel who got pregnant, had abortion and committed suicide after a depression.

* 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.

Known for his hitting brilliance, Ruth set career records for home runs ( 714 ), slugging percentage (. 690 ), runs batted in ( RBI ) ( 2, 217 ), and on-base plus slugging ( OPS ) ( 1. 164 ).

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

Aaron is also in the top five for career hits with 3, 771 ( third ) and runs with 2, 174, which is tied for fourth with Babe Ruth.

On July 31, 1969, Aaron hit his 537th home run, passing Mickey Mantle ; this moved him into third place on the career home run list, after Willie Mays and Babe Ruth.

For his career, McGwire averaged a home run once every 10. 61 at bats, the lowest at bats per home run ratio in baseball history ( Babe Ruth is second at 11. 76 ).< ref >

Ruth Gordon began her career early, posing as a picture baby for Mellin's food.

Although Ruth Benedict ’ s fascination with death started at an early age, she continued to study how death affected people throughout her career.

Williams was also second to Ruth in career slugging percentage, where he remains today, and first in on-base percentage.

He was also second to Ruth in career walks, but has since dropped to fourth place behind Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson.

Although Williams ' career did not overlap with that of Ruth or Bonds, a direct comparison with another great hitter, Hank Aaron, is possible.

* May 6 – Babe Ruth hits his first career home run off of Jack Warhop.

* May 30 – Eventual Baseball Hall of Famer Babe Ruth appears in his last career game, playing for the Boston Braves in Philadelphia against the Phillies.

At his retirement, his 586 career home runs were the fourth-best in history ( behind only Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, and Willie Mays ).

In March 2009 Jones went to the top of the UK Music Charts for the third time in his career thanks to a cover of " Islands in the Stream ", sung with Ruth Jones, Rob Brydon and Robin Gibb, who co-wrote the original with his brothers Barry and Maurice.

Babe Ruth holds the Major League Baseball | MLB career slugging percentage record (. 690 ).

Babe Ruth, noted as one of the most prolific hitters in Major League Baseball history, spent the majority of his career in the American League.

Mantle hit the ball for his 535th career home run putting him in sole possession of third place on the all-time home run list, behind only Babe Ruth and Willie Mays.

In six career Series starts, he was 4-2 with 32 strikeouts and a low 1. 79 earned run average, and is still remembered for striking out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons, and Joe Cronin in their consecutive at-bats in the 1934 All-Star Game.

The eldest of six daughters, Chao was born in Taipei, Taiwan, to Ruth Mulan Chu Chao ( 趙朱木蘭 Zhào Zhū Mùlán ), a historian, and Dr. James S. C. Chao ( 趙錫成博士 Zhào Xīchéng ), who began his career as a merchant mariner and later, after getting established in New York, built a successful shipping company ( Foremost Shipping Co .).

He became the second player in Major League Baseball history to hit 500 career home runs, after Babe Ruth.

* Ruth Brown runs away from home to marry trumpeter Jimmy Brown and begin her career as a singer.

Her mother was one of the first women to design and found her own clothing firm, Ruth Manchester Ltd. Manchester started a singing career at an early age, learning the piano and harpsichord at the Manhattan School of Music and Arts, singing commercial jingles at age 15, and becoming a staff writer for Chappell Music while attending Manhattan's High School of Performing Arts.

Soon afterwards, Ruth Brown became the band's singer for a short period before her own solo career took off.

After a brief return to Belgium, and a disastrous reception to an early oratorio Ruth, he moved to Paris, where he married and embarked on a career as teacher and organist.

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 ''.

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.

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 ''??

But now, for the first time since Lou Gehrig ( with 47 home runs ) spurred Ruth on in 1927, two men playing for the same team have zeroed in on 60.

But except for a vague adherence to the basic storyline -- i.e., that Ruth remained with Naomi and finally wound up with Boaz -- the film version has little to do with the Bible.

In They Do It With Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is mentioned that Miss Marple grew up in a cathedral close, and that she studied at an Italian finishing school with Americans Ruth Van Rydock and Caroline " Carrie " Louise Serrocold.

Along with Mostel, the musical featured a cast of seasoned performers, including Jack Gilford ( Mostel's friend and fellow blacklist member ), David Burns, John Carradine, Ruth Kobart and Raymond Walburn.

The never – landmarked Yankee Stadium, the " House that Ruth Built " and home to the New York Yankees since 1923, has been replaced with a similar-looking ballpark just across 161st Street.

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.

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 retired in 1935 after a short stint with the Boston Braves, and the following year, he became one of the first five players to be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

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.

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

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

According to the Book of Ruth, the valley to the east is where Ruth of Moab gleaned the fields and returned to town with Naomi.

However, they then went into one of the longest championship droughts in baseball history, called by some the " Curse of the Bambino " after its alleged beginning with the Red Sox's sale of Babe Ruth to the rival Yankees two years after their world championship in 1918, an 86-year wait before the team's sixth World Championship in.

The theme of hesed is woven throughout Ruth, beginning at 1: 8 with Naomi blessing her two daughters-in-law as she urges them to return to their Moabite families.

It is also at the same time believably spontaneous and human that Ruth should want to stay with the mother-in-law for whom she had built up an affection, and offer to undertake the back-breaking and humble work of gleaning ( Leviticus 23: 22 ) to support them.

Speaker and Coveleski were aging and the Yankees were rising with a new weapon: Babe Ruth and the home run.

After she died, Young tried several jobs, and eventually moved in with friends John and Ruth Benedum and did odd jobs for them.