...Many people have heard of the legend the great Bambino. Babe Ruth was a hero because he was a person of distinguished courage. He was admired for his brave soul and total determination for greatness, but who really was Babe Ruth? He was one of the best baseball players in our nation. Sixty-eight years after his death and he is still seen as one of America’s greatest heroes. It all began around 1902 when Babe Ruth was seven years old and sent to live in St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, a catholic orphanage and reformatory that became his home for the next 12 years. Ruth was especially close to a monk named Brother Matthias, who quickly became a father figure to the young boy. Ruth was introduced to various sports...
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...Curse of the Bambino Babe Ruth is known as one of the greatest baseball players back in the early 1900’s. He broke many records and hit 714 home runs during his baseball career. As you may know, the Boston Red Sox traded him to the New York Yankees in 1920 because Boston’s pitcher and outfielder demanded more pay for their time. This opened up the floodgates for Boston and lead to eighty six years of misery for the Red Sox. During the time of the Curse, the New York Yankees went on to win twenty six World Series while the Red Sox stayed back on a ride of misery (http://www.baseballhistorian.com/html/babe_curse.htm). The Curse of The Great Bambino is one of the biggest curses in Major League Baseball (MLB). The reason why the Red Sox called...
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...Babe Ruth Date Born: February 6, 1895 Place: Baltimore, Maryland Date Died: August 16, 1948 Place: New York, New York Early Family Background: George Herman Ruth Jr., aka Babe Ruth had eight other brothers and sisters, but only him and his sister Mamie survived. His parents names were Kate and George Herman Ruth. Ruth’s father was a bartender and his mother helped at their tavern. Ruth’s parents made no time for him so they sent him to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys. Adult Life: Helen Woodford: married on October 17, 1914 in Ellicott City, Maryland. In 1921, they adopted a little girl named Dorothy. Jan 11, 1929, Helen died in a fire of suffocation. About 3 months later, on April 17, 1929, Babe married Claire Hodgson in New York. In 1930, Babe adopted Claire’s daughter Julia & Claire adopted Babe’s daughter Dorothy. Significant Accomplishments: Babe’s record of 714 homers was only beaten by Hank Aaron in 1974. In 1932, Ruth did his famous “called shot,” where he pointed to the centerfield bleachers and hit his homerun in that same direction. When the Babe was with the Yankees they won a total of 7 pennants and 4 world championships from 1920 – 1933. Feb 2, 1936 Babe became Charter member of Baseball Hall of Fame. Other Points of Interest: *Babe Ruth got his name from when his new legal guardian Jack Dunn brought him to see the players, they said “Here’s Jack’s newest Babe!” The name stuck so throughout his life he...
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...The Big Bam. The Sultan of Swat. The Great Bambino. The Caliph of Clout. The Behemoth of Bust. The Colossus of Clout. Babe Ruth. Whatever you call him, he was the greatest baseball player of all time. Though not known for it as well as his other feats, he was an amazing pitcher. He was also the biggest slugger ever. Though some said that Willie Mays was greater, Babe Ruth was more of and all around player, and a better hitter than Mays. These traits make him unquestionably the greatest player of all time. In the first six years of his career, the Babe was one of the game’s best pitchers. He had a 94-46 win-loss record and a great 2.28 era (wiki). Some sources say that had he not stopped pitching to become a full time slugger, he could have been the greatest pitcher of all time (u-s-history). In one World Series stretch, he pitched 29 1/3 scoreless innings. In 1916, his best year, he had 8 more shutouts than 7-time Cy Young Award Winning Robert Clement’s best year (Bleacher Report). In 1919, he was sold to the Yankees, and pitched five games, all of them wins, before willingly easing out of pitching into an outfielder....
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...In the 1920s one sport that was very popular to play and watch was baseball. It was also the time of one of the greatest baseball players ever, George Herman Ruth Jr. Known as The Great Bambino, The Sultan of Swat, The Big Bam, Jack Dunn’s Baby, The Caliph of Clout, and The Behemoth of Bust but you probably know him best as “Babe” Ruth. George Herman Ruth Jr. was born on February 6, 1895. He was born in Baltimore Maryland. When he was younger he rarely saw his parents, he was practically raised by the Catholic Missionaries who ran St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys. George was classified as irreformable because of his lack of ability to adapt to a structured environment at St. Mary’s. In 1914 Babe Ruth was bought by the Boston Red...
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...¬Who is the Iron Horse? & What's his next move. Henry Louis Gehrig is an all American baseball player that’s shine was always under looked due to his teammate Babe Ruth. "Let’s face it. I'm not a headline guy. I always knew that as long as I was following Babe to the plate I could have gone up there and stood on my head. No one would have noticed the difference. When the Babe was through swinging, whether he hit one or fanned, nobody paid any attention to the next hitter. They all were talking about what the Babe had done."-Lou Gehrig Lou was overshadowed by babe because not only was he an unparalleled hitter but he was and outgoing and flamboyant guy unlike Lou who was often quiet, Lou was one of those guys that would just go out and do...
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...Everyone has heard of the infamous “Babe Ruth”, but few people know that his birth given name is George Herman Ruth, Jr. He lived from February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948, and was best known as "Babe" Ruth and nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of Swat". Babe was an American baseball player who spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) playing for three teams between the years of 1914–1935. The most important points of Babe’s life are his early childhood, his major league baseball career, and the legacy that Babe left behind. Ruth came from German-American parents, Kate Schamberger-Ruth and George Herman Ruth, Sr. His parents owned a succession of saloons (bars) and sold lightning rods. Babe Ruth was one of seven children; however only two of the seven children survived infancy, Ruth and his sister, Marnie. At the age of seven, Ruth’s father signed custody of his son over to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, an orphanage ran by catholic missionaries. Ruth would only get to see his family on special occasions and holidays, however his mother died from tuberculosis when Babe was a teenager. Brother Matthias Boutlier of the orphanage became Ruth’s father figure in life; teaching him how to read, write, and most importantly, introducing Ruth to the sport of baseball. Brother Matthias helped Ruth to work on his hitting, running, and pitching. In 1913, Ruth’s talent and abilities at baseball were noticed by scout, Joe Engel, who brought Ruth to the attention of Jack Dunn...
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...of their personal issues. These two great pieces come together to really strengthen the point that Roy Hobbs was unable to overcome many of the challenges that he encountered. At the end of The Natural, Roy Hobbs is unable to overcome...
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...Gentlemen, scholars, athletes, let us imagine what would have happened had Babe Ruth, the greatest player of all time, had had a Negro doppelganger, let’s call him Benjamin Smith. The Sultan of Swat went to a prestigious white Catholic school where he played in competitive leagues with all the best white players of his generation. He was, it is well known, a strong boy famous in his community from a young age for crushing long balls through the streets of Pigtown and into the windows of neighboring houses. His heroics on the field at St. Mary’s during his schoolboy days had given him a taste of his future and he needed more, seeking out a new opportunity in Baltimore with the Orioles. He quickly got to work at the plate, making a name for himself...
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...The Boston Red Sox vs. The New York Yankees According to "The History of Major League Baseball" (2003/2013), professional baseball dates back to 1869 when the Cincinnati Red Stockings were formed by a group of Ohio investors (First Pro Team the Cincinnati Red Stockings). In 1903 a governing body was formed to enforce the rules of the game and was made up of two separate leagues, the American League and the National League. That was the birth of Major League Baseball (MLB) and the first World Series, which put the best from both leagues against each other to establish dominance, was in the fall of 1903 ("Boston Red Sox 1901 - Present", 2001/2013). The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees have been members of the American League since day one and currently are members of the eastern division of that league. These two franchises demonstrate how to build a strong fan base and team chemistry by acquiring players and managers that represent the cities in which they play. The Boston Red Sox, originally the Boston Americans, were formed in 1901 ("Boston Red Sox 1901 - Present", 2001/2013). They took on the Red Sox name in 1907. The first World Series ever played was between Boston and the Pittsburgh franchise with Boston winning the series and being crowned the new organizations first champions. The team enjoyed much success in the early years winning five championships from 1903 – 1918 before having a championship drought that lasted until 2004. The franchise has appeared in 12...
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...EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION Two big events will frame the year ahead: America’s presidential election and the summer Olympic games in Beijing. The race for the White House will be a marathon, from the front-loaded primary season in January and February to the general election in November. The betting is that the winner will be a Democrat—with a strong chance that a Clinton will again be set to succeed a Bush as leader of the free world. China, meanwhile, will hope to use the Olympics to show the world what a splendid giant it has become. It will win the most gold medals, and bask in national pride and the global limelight. But it will also face awkward questions on its repressive politics. America and China will be prime players in the matters that will concentrate minds around the world in 2008. One of these is the world economy, which can no longer depend on America, with its housing and credit woes, to drive growth. America should—just—avoid recession, but it will be China (for the first time the biggest contributor to global growth) along with India and other emerging markets that will shine. Another focus of attention will be climate change. As China replaces America as the world’s biggest producer of greenhouse gases, serious efforts on global warming depend on the serious involvement of those two countries. If 2007 was the year when this rose to the top of the global agenda, in 2008 people will expect action. It is striking that green is a theme that links all the contributions...
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...The New Astrology by SUZANNE WHITE Copyright © 1986 Suzanne White. All rights reserved. 2 Dedication book is dedicated to my mother, Elva Louise McMullen Hoskins, who is gone from this world, but who would have been happy to share this page with my courageous kids, April Daisy White and Autumn Lee White; my brothers, George, Peter and John Hoskins; my niece Pamela Potenza; and my loyal friends Kitti Weissberger, Val Paul Pierotti, Stan Albro, Nathaniel Webster, Jean Valère Pignal, Roselyne Viéllard, Michael Armani, Joseph Stoddart, Couquite Hoffenberg, Jean Louis Besson, Mary Lee Castellani, Paula Alba, Marguerite and Paulette Ratier, Ted and Joan Zimmermann, Scott Weiss, Miekle Blossom, Ina Dellera, Gloria Jones, Marina Vann, Richard and Shiela Lukins, Tony Lees-Johnson, Jane Russell, Jerry and Barbara Littlefield, Michele and Mark Princi, Molly Friedrich, Consuelo and Dick Baehr, Linda Grey, Clarissa and Ed Watson, Francine and John Pascal, Johnny Romero, Lawrence Grant, Irma Kurtz, Gene Dye, Phyllis and Dan Elstein, Richard Klein, Irma Pride Home, Sally Helgesen, Sylvie de la Rochefoucauld, Ann Kennerly, David Barclay, John Laupheimer, Yvon Lebihan, Bernard Aubin, Dédé Laqua, Wolfgang Paul, Maria José Desa, Juliette Boisriveaud, Anne Lavaur, and all the others who so dauntlessly stuck by me when I was at my baldest and most afraid. Thanks, of course, to my loving doctors: James Gaston, Richard Cooper, Yves Decroix, Jean-Claude Durand, Michel Soussaline and...
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