Babe Ruth
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The crowd that jammed Chicago's Wrigley Field booed when the big
man with the barrel-shaped body and pipestem legs came up to bat. It
was the third game of the 1932 World Series between the Chicago Cubs
and the New York Yankees. The score was 4-4 in the fifth inning. Cub
pitcher Charlie Root thr ....
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scoreless innings in World Series play and his total of 714 major
league homers not including 15 World Series homers.
George Herman Ruth was born in Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 6, 1895.
His father, a saloonkeeper, placed him in St. Mary's Industrial School
when George was 7. There he learned to play baseball. In 1914, through
the help of one of the priests who taught at the school, Ruth began to
play with the Baltimore Orioles of the International League. The
Oriole ....
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