Missoula, ‘Bullet Joe' and baseball history Oct 23, 2008
The next season Bullet Joe was with the Red Sox, for whom he won 15 games on a staff that included one George Herman Babe Ruth. Ruth made 19 starts on the mound and for the first time played extensively in the outfield. (Missoulian, MT)
Ask Babe: More questions for the Babe Oct 4, 2008
"The photo taken on the morning of May 7, 1921. Students of Mount St. Mary's were treated to a batting display by George Herman 'Babe' Ruth on the Mount's Echo Field, which still exists today,'' according to text on a Mt. St. Mary's display. While Gibbons thought Ruth was standing with a Xaverian Brother, he's actually posing with Monsignor Benjamin Bradley, a Catholic priest, who was college president at the time. "Msgr. Bradley is one of the Mount giants. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
False economy Sep 23, 2008
" More than half a century before anyone had even considered the term "sustainable development", Mahatma Gandhi warned of the dangers facing a rapidly developing world. Almost 80 years later, the population of India has quadrupled, and the US - the world's greatest over-consumer - has a population of 300 million. The risks prophesised by Gandhi have started to come true. Eight years ago this week, in September 2000, more than 100 presidents, prime ministers and leaders of the world's nations met... (BBC News -- Science)
Babe Ruth Collectibles Sep 16, 2008
George Herman "Babe" Ruth (1895-1948) was larger than life, an American sports icon who ruled the baseball world during his prime in the 1920s and early '30s. Known as "The Sultan of Swat," Ruth generated a ton of sports memorabilia, with collectors shelling out big bucks for top artifacts. (Suite101.com)
A's walk off vs. Tigers for second time Jun 4, 2008
Often cited for his cherubic likeness to Babe Ruth, Cust really does look like a youngish George Herman. He doesn't get cheated with his cuts, either. (MLB.com -- Oakland Athletics)
Love loves the stuff in his Love's Gun and Pawn May 8, 2008
Working at the Western Union in 1947, Love received a telegram for George Herman Ruth. "He was eating lunch," he says. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
U.S.Tour Yankee Stadium before baseball season ends Apr 19, 2008
New York Yankees legend George Herman 'Babe' Ruth takes a big swing at New York's Yankee Stadium in this June 18, 1929, file photo. RELATED LINKS. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Marriage is a happy union Mar 30, 2008
Truth is, the right words for the final event at Yankee Stadium should be "Play Ball!" Let it be duly noted, however, that one George Herman Ruth took in at least one Bruins game in the mid-1920s at the old Boston Arena. Hot dog sales that night no doubt were robust. (Boston Globe)
Wall of memories at Yanks' Monument Park Feb 26, 2008
George Herman "Babe" Ruth. Joseph Paul DiMaggio. (MLB.com -- NY Yankees Yankees)
Yankee Stadium tour is rich in history Jan 29, 2008
The Official Site of Major League Baseball: News: Major League Baseball News. Take a tour of the current Yankee Stadium while you still can before the new model opens in 2009. (MLB.com -- NY Yankees Yankees)
Battery-powered cars turn UNI parking lot into race track Sep 30, 2007
"They're changing the gearing on it because we didn't have time to do it yesterday because we had the parade," said George Herman, one of the advisers, as a student put links in a chain between the engine and the single rear wheel. The car was driven in Prairie's homecoming parade Friday. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
THE SPECTATOR, by Tryve Brackin Aug 17, 2007
Finally, I will take it to the grave that George Herman "Babe" Ruth was the all-time greatest home run hitter. He did it when most players hit five or six home runs a season at best in his early years. (Plaquemine Post South, LA)
Full Story Aug 12, 2007
"Liquor, women, partying and sex were always present . . . and where George Herman Ruth was always at the top of his game," writes Harvey Frommer, whose book hits stores in November. Ruth routinely held wild parties jammed with young beauties in hotels on the road. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Barry Bonds hits 756th homer Aug 9, 2007
GEORGE HERMAN 'BABE' RUTH. 714 Total home runs in 2,503 games; 22 seasons. (News & Observer -- Sports)
Record isn't the greatest in sports Aug 8, 2007
The legendary George Herman Ruth made the No. 60 the greatest record in sports in 1927 and for 34 years The Babe's single-season home run record stood on the mountaintop. Remarkable as Ruth's 714 career home runs were, that was never the most prestigious target; not when Hank Aaron's total rose to 755 in 1976, and not now, with Barry Bonds at 756 and counting. (New Haven Register, CT)
How will Falcons do? Jul 27, 2007
Commentary and opinion. The entry titled "My thoughts and yours on Falcons record," and any of the comments about it. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
ESPN.com: The Best on Bonds Jul 25, 2007
And that is because this particular raking will be the 715th home run of Bonds' career, meaning he will have surpassed the home run production of George Herman "Babe" Ruth. This is a problem. (ESPN -- Baseball)
Nickname match game Jul 12, 2007
But George Herman Ruth also answered to "Jidge" from his teammates, and "Big Monkey" and "Two Head" from his opponents. Writers tried to hang "The Commerce Comet" and "The Commerce Kid" on another Yankee, but Mickey Mantle was already the greatest baseball name ever conceived. (Albany Times Union)
Would-be record-breaker is really a rule-breaker Jun 15, 2007
Tonight we witness one of those intersections of history as Bonds -- eight homers shy of Hank Aaron's magical 755 -- takes his first swings from the very same batter's box where a young pitcher/slugger named George Herman Ruth tapped his cleats, dug a toehold, and waited for a pitch back in 1914. This is Boston's chance to deliver a message to a wildly talented ballplayer who is destined to be remembered not as the home run king but as the flag carrier of the Steroid Era. (Boston Globe)
Baltimore: A landscape of patriotism, boats and baseball Jun 6, 2007
And then, if one follows the 60 baseballs painted on the pavement from the Sports Legend, the outcome is a stop at 216 Emory St. This, as all baseball aficionados know, is the home and birthplace (1895) of George Herman Babe Ruth, who, to this day, remains the most imposing presence on the landscape of the national pastime. However, if unique sporting stages are the visitor s penchant then Camden Yards might have to play second fiddle to Baltimore s hallowed turf at Pimlico Race Course. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Racism taints views of Bonds' home runs Jun 3, 2007
Aaron had taken the previous record away from the legendary, beloved George Herman "Babe" Ruth in 1974. With only single digits separating Bonds from Aaron's tally, commissioner Bud Selig still has not figured out whether or how Major League Baseball will mark the record-breaking homer. (Newsday -- Opinion)
The National Baseball Hall of Fame Apr 1, 2007
Babe Ruth was in fact, George Herman Ruth, Jr. Given his famous nickname early in his career, he was, and remains, a powerhouse in the laurels of baseball. One of the Halls original five inductees, along with Ty Cobb, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson and Honus Wagner, the Babe was renowned for his off-field actions particularly with helping children. (Suite101.com)
