'Babe' Ruth

'Babe' Ruth
‘Babe’ Ruth [Babe Ruth]
(1895–1948) the most famous US ↑baseball player in the history of the game. He was born George Herman Ruth, and his popular name was the ‘Bambino’. He played for the New York ↑Yankees (1919–35), and Yankee Stadium is sometimes called ‘the house that Ruth built’. He had 60 ↑home runs (= hits that allow the hitter to run around all the bases without stopping) in 1927, the most ever for a baseball season until 1961, and a total of 714 during his career, the most until 1974. He was chosen for the National Baseball ↑Hall of Fame in 1936.

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