Up for auction "Babe Ruth" Remnant of his Game Used Bat Encapsulated. This item is certified authentic by Todd
Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity on Reverse. ES-3326D George Herman "Babe" Ruth
Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American
professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from
1914 through 1935. Nicknamed "The Bambino" and "The
Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a
slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth established many MLB batting (and some
pitching) records, including career home runs (714), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on balls (2,062), slugging percentage (.690),
and on-base plus slugging (OPS)
(1.164); the last two still stand as of 2019. Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports
heroes in American culture and
is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936,
Ruth was elected into the Baseball
Hall of Fame as one of its "first
five" inaugural members. At age seven, Ruth was sent
to St. Mary's
Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory where he was mentored by Brother Matthias
Boutlier of the Xaverian Brothers, the
school's disciplinarian and a capable baseball player. In 1914, Ruth was signed
to play minor-league baseball
for the Baltimore Orioles but
was soon sold to the Red Sox. By 1916, he had built a reputation as an
outstanding pitcher who sometimes hit long home runs, a feat unusual for any
player in the pre-1920 dead-ball era. Although Ruth twice won 23 games in a
season as a pitcher and was a member of three World Series championship teams with the Red Sox, he
wanted to play every day and was allowed to convert to an outfielder. With
regular playing time, he broke the MLB single-season home run record in 1919. After that
season, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold
Ruth to the Yankees amid controversy. The trade fueled Boston's subsequent
86-year championship drought and popularized the "Curse of the Bambino"
superstition. In his 15 years with the Yankees, Ruth helped the team win
seven American League
(AL) pennants and four World Series championships. His big
swing led to escalating home run totals that not only drew fans to the ballpark
and boosted the sport's popularity but also helped usher in baseball's live-ball era, which evolved from a low-scoring game of
strategy to a sport where the home run was a major factor. As part of the
Yankees' vaunted "Murderers' Row"
lineup of 1927, Ruth hit 60 home runs, which extended his MLB single-season
record by a single home run. Ruth's last season with the Yankees was 1934; he
retired from the game the following year, after a short stint with the Boston Braves. During his
career, Ruth led the AL in home runs during a season 12 times. During Ruth's
career, he was the target of intense press and public attention for his
baseball exploits and off-field penchants for drinking and womanizing. After
his retirement as a player, he was denied the opportunity to manage a major
league club, most likely due to poor behavior during parts of his playing
career. In his final years, Ruth made many public appearances, especially in
support of American efforts in World War II. In 1946, he became ill with nasopharyngeal cancer and
died from the disease two years later. Ruth remains a part of American culture,
and in 2018 President Donald Trump posthumously
awarded him the Presidential Medal of
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