Babe Ruth

I rank Babe Ruth among the rare athletes who transcend their sport entirely. What fascinates me is not just the home runs but the fact that he began as an elite left-handed pitcher for Boston — the original two-way player, decades before the term existed. He turned baseball from a tactical, low-scoring game into a spectacle of power, and in doing so became a piece of American mythology. That he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom seventy years after his death tells you how durable that myth is. For me, Ruth is the template against which every larger-than-life sports star has been measured ever since.

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Name (English)

Babe Ruth

Name (Japanese)

ベーブ・ルース

Reading

べーぶ・るーす

Born

February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948

Origin

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Occupation

baseball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Goat

Awards & achievements

• 1923 Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
• 1933 Major League Baseball All-Star
• 1995 Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame
• 1997 Major League Baseball All-Time Team
• 1999 Major League Baseball All-Century Team
• 2018 Presidential Medal of Freedom

• Official sitehttps://www.baberuth.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe%20Ruth
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%BC%E3%83%96%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q213812

Tags

• Maryland
• baseball player

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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