Babe Ruth - The King of Crash

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  It is widely believed that George Vecsey, a sportswriter for the New York Times, wrote the first articles that explicitly mentioned in print the "curse" of Babe Ruth. The articles appeared during the 1986 World Series.


Prior to Ruth leaving Boston for New York, the Red Sox had won five of the first 15 World Series. Portrayals of the "curse" have appeared everywhere: From late night television shows such as "Saturday Night Live" to Hollywood movies like "50 First Dates" and "Fever Pitch." In 2005, ESPN Classic aired a television program called "The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame Harry Frazee!"
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Babe Ruth at a Glance 

George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 - August 16, 1948), also popularly known as "Babe", "The Bambino", and "The Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from -. Ruth is one of the greatest sports heroes of American culture. He has been named the greatest baseball player in history in various surveys and rankings, and his home run hitting prowess and charismatic personality made him a larger than life figure in the "Roaring Twenties". He was the first player to hit 60 home runs in one season (1927), setting the season record which stood for until broken by Roger Mari...

 

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."


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1916 and 1917 would be Ruth's best years as a pitcher, as he won 23 games in '16 with an amazing 1.75 ERA in 323 innings. The Red Sox had a weaker offensive club, having sold Tris Speaker to the Cleveland Indians, but the Sox' pitching carried them to another American League pennant. They faced the Brooklyn Dodgers in the World Series, and in Game 2, Ruth pitched a complete-game 14-inning victory. The Red Sox went on to win the Series in five games.

 

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Babe vrs Bond 

The following present five of Babe Ruth's best consecutive seasons compared to Barry Bonds' LAST five seasons, each player's lifetime batting average, the average number of home runs per season, and each player's career slugging average.

BABE RUTH

1926
Batting Average .372
Home Runs 47
Slugging .737

1927
Batting Average .356
Home Runs 60
Slugging .772

1928
Batting Average .323
Home Runs 54
Slugging .709

1929
Batting Average .345
Home Runs 46
Slugging .697

1930
Batting Average .359
Home Runs 49
Slugging .732

1926-1930
Batting Average .350
Home Runs 51.2
Slugging .730

BABE RUTH CAREER
Batting Average .342
Home Runs 46
Slugging .690


BARRY BONDS

2000
Batting Average .306
Home Runs 49
Slugging .688

2001
Batting Average .328
Home Runs 73
Slugging .863

2002
Batting Average .370
Home Runs 46
Slugging .799

2003
Batting Average .341
Home Runs 45
Slugging .749

2004
Batting Average .362
Home Runs 45
Slugging .812

2000-2004
Batting Average .339
Home Runs 51.6
Slugging .781

BARRY BONDS CAREER
Batting Average .300
Home Runs 42
Slugging .611

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Babe Ruth Bats and Balls 

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The Babe on DVD 

Babe Ruth - The Life Behind the Legend

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