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 ...

Tom was born four years after Ruth’s 1948 death. Julia was forever telling her son stories about the Babe that weren’t common knowledge, like the one about the throw rug she kept in their New ...

George Herman "Babe" Ruth was born on Feb. 6, 1895. While baseball fans are well-versed in the both Babe's statistical and hot dog-eating accomplishments, here are some lesser-known facts about ...

Babe Ruth was born 119 years ago Thursday, which is also the last chance to buy one of the most famous pieces of sports history. The baseball up for sale has a history that reads like a fairy tale.

That saying may as well have started with Babe Ruth. Born on this day in 1895, George Herman Ruth first made his name as a left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.

Babe Ruth, the fearsome slugger who hit 714 home runs and won seven World Series, battled advanced-stage cancer in the final years of his life. ... Ruth, born in February 1895, ...

If Babe Ruth had never been born, or if he’d somehow remained a pitcher for his whole career, baseball generally would look almost exactly as it does today: ...

Babe Ruth died, never knowing he was fighting cancer, in 1948. He played 22 season in the MLB. ... For almost 40 years, the Babe thought he had been born on Feb. 7, 1894.

Babe Ruth’s 1918 contract — inked two years before he became a Yankee ... the city where he was born. The left-handed pitching phenom Ruth made a mere $2,500 in his rookie campaign — a ...

Julia Ruth Stevens, the last surviving child of Babe Ruth, died early Saturday morning at an assisted-living facility in Henderson, Nev., of complications following a pulmonary embolism, said her ...