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Babe Ruth Annotated Bibliography

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Joseph Knight

Babe Ruth

Mrs.Pinson

9/22/2014

1) Early years
2) Major league career
3) Retirement
4) Personal life
5) Memorial
6) Legacy

Joseph Knight
Mrs.Pinson
9/22/14
English 4
The Legend of Baseball
Even though Babe Ruth was given away as a child by his parents, he still became one of the all-time greats. He basically rewrote the major league record book, breaking all the hitting records and holding those records for a couple decades. Babes’ retirement was the end of a baseball legends career, though his legacy will never end. George struggled in his older years from fighting cancer. Hundreds of thousands of people came to Babes memorial. George Herman (The Babe) Ruth Jr. will forever be known as the greatest baseball …show more content…

Son of George Herman Ruth Sr. and Kate Schamberger Ruth. George Jr. was born on February 16, 1935. As a child young George Jr. was often home alone while his parents were off at work. He often would get in trouble for chewing Tabaco and drinking also he would tease police officers. After a few years of this George Sr. and Kate said they just couldn’t handle it anymore. So at the age of seven they decided to give little George to the catholic orphanage. Who now has full custody of him.
At the orphanage George wasn’t ever bullied since he was one of the bigger kids, also everyone seemed to like him he was a funny kid. His favorite thing to do was play baseball, a monk named brother Mathais would help him get better every day to keep him out of trouble at the school.
MAJOR LEAGUE CAREER
George was drafted to play for the Boston Red Sox. He was such a young player that all the other ball players began to mock him by calling him “Jacks new Babe”. Thus the start of Babe Ruth. After shattering record after record babe started to turn in to a king. No one around was as good of a hitter as him, nick names can flying from every directing. The sultan of swat , The great bambino, the caliph of clout, the behemoth of bust, the big …show more content…

That same record is one of the greatest ever in my eyes, 60 home runs before bats were engineered to work better and that record stayed for 34 years. You know someone means a lot when they died over 60 years ago and is still known as one of the greatest baseball players to ever live. It was said that during one of the hardest times in America he gave hope to so many, a man playing baseball brought hope to a whole nation. The great depression had nothing on the Babe. One of his quotes that will live on forever is, “I swing big, with everything I’ve got. I hit big or miss big. I like to live as big as I can.” – George Herman Ruth

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