If you ever look at a leaderboard for, say, batting average in a given season, the players at the top most likely didn’t actually have the best batting averages of anyone in that year.
This Saturday marks Babe Ruth Day in St. Petersburg, a city the baseball icon helped put on the map. FOX 13’s Lloyd Sowers takes a closer look.
Babe Ruth's popularity and fame were so widespread that even America's enemies knew of him. Almost a decade after he had bashed his last home run, his presence still was felt. Babe Ruth's record ...
He was a worldwide celebrity, an international star, the likes of which baseball has never seen since," says broadcaster Ernie Harwell about Babe Ruth on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series.