Babe Ruth

                                                The legend continues

“I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or I miss big. I like to live as big as I can” –Babe Ruth

George Herman Ruth better known as Babe Ruth was the first superstar in sports. Some say he could have been the world’s greatest left hand pitcher but instead he became the world’s greatest hitter. His famous Rookie card is soled for 500,000 dollars and that was back in 2008. His baseball bat is sold for 1.3 million dollars! Now that’s a lot of money to spend, but that’s how much money you need to spent in order to own a legend’s historical artifacts.

Babe Ruth was often referred as the world’s best baseball player who ever lived. In 22 seasons he hit 714 homeruns. So he mainly was known as the home-run hitter. In 1927 he set the record for hitting 60 homeruns in 154 games, a major league record that stood until 1961. Babe Ruth was one of the only two people to ever hit a homerun in the World’s Series Games. He also became part of the Hall of Fame.  At the age of fifthteen he was playing both catcher and pitcher for St. Mary’s varsity team.

            At the age of 19 he was discover by Jack Dunn, who signed him to a professional contract but couldn’t because Ruth was under the school custody so, Ruth had to remain in school. That led to some difficulty, and that lead Dunn to adopt Ruth to be able to go play baseball. People thought it was way funny that at the age of 19 Ruth was adopted and was Dunns’s baby! That’s how he got his nickname Babe Ruth. He started to play in a small team Dunn wasn’t making any money and so he and two other players were going to get traded but Ruth didn’t wanted to but he still got traded so then he play for the Boston, Red sox where he became known as the best player later on he got traded for the New York, Yankees for twice the amount of a regular trade off.

He faced a lot of taught challenges. He’s a great example of over coming adversity. He came from a family of eight children but only him and his sister Mimie survived infancy. At the age of seven his parents give up custody to St. Mary’s industrial school. He hated how they treated and the strict rules but, he did what he thought was the best. He soon learned that that was the best decision he ever made because there is where he learned to play baseball, the game that lead him to success.

            In conclusion, Babe Ruth was a great man who over came adversity and never give up even when things got tough. Coming from a family with nothing he still made a difference in he’s life. He didn’t let things get to him and kept studying in school and played the game he loved and because he stayed in school he got to live the dream he never even imagine. More than seventy years has passed since Babe Ruth passed away but, he is still remains like The Best Baseball Player.

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