Babe Ruth, born George Herman 'Babe' Ruth Jr. on Feb. 6, 1895, made his Major League Baseball debut on July 11, 1914. Ruth went on to play 22 seasons, 10 World Series and hit 714 home runs before ...

Timothy Grover of Pleasant Hill, author of "Barnstorming Babe: A Slugger's Bumpy Trek Across Small-Town America," described the 1922 tour during an author talk and book signing on Jan. 30.

the likes of which baseball has never seen since," says broadcaster Ernie Harwell about Babe Ruth on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. Babe Ruth, who was the first MLB player to hit 60 homers ...

Babe Ruth's popularity and ... he developed into a marvelous baseball player with the encouragement of Brother Matthias. If it can be said that Ruth would eventually save baseball, the opposite ...