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Babe Ruth


Babe Ruth is an American hero. He transformed baseball from a sport, to a
national pastime when it needed it the most. Coming off of the wake of the Black
Socks scandal, baseball was headed downhill. It had a bad reputation, and
interest was waning. The dead-ball era was dragging on, and there were to few
baseball "purists" left to support it. Baseball was in search of a new audience,
and Babe Ruth handed it to them on a silver platter. Babe Ruth started the Home
run era of baseball. In the dead-ball scores of 2-1 1-0 was the norm. With the
advent of the Home run era, games that averaged 1-2 runs an inning were common.
What once took a couple hits, walks, and a stolen base to accomplish were being
done with the single swing of a bat. Baseball was now much more enjoyable to
watch. Then with the invention of the radio, millions of people enjoyed
listening to it.

George Herman Ruth was born in the early 1890's to a couple of German
immigrants who ran a local......

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