Babe_Ruth

Babe Ruth (1895-1948) 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 threw one strike, then another. Grinning, the batter stepped back and seemed to point to the distant center-field bleachers. Root pitched, the big man swung, and the ball soared into the bleachers for a home run. The hitter was Babe Ruth, probably the most revered of baseball players. Ruth's legendary pointing gesture whether it ever happened or whether he even intended it captured the imagination of baseball fans, as did everything about this great player. The Babe's achievements loom larger in the record books. The left-hander held or shared about 60 records, with 28 made in World Series games. Among them were his record of pitching 29 consecutive scoreless innings in World Series play and his total of ruth, baseball, world, series, season, play, one, york, yankees, record, new, later, years, whether, sold, school, root, pitching, man, legs, league, homers, home, help, grew, george, games, first, field, ended, dollars, day, coach, career, boston