Babe Ruth The Sultan of Swat and the transformation of baseball
but everything changed in 1920 when a man named George Herman Babe Ruth swung a bat and sent the sport into orbit literally before Babe Ruth baseball was a game of low scores and tactical Maneuvers after Babe Ruth it was all about dingers Ruth who started his career as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919 yes you read that right sold not traded the Red Sox owner needed cash to fund a Broadway play not making this up and thus baseball’s most famous rivalry was born Ruth arrival in New York changed the game forever he wasn’t just hitting home runs he was blasting them by the end of his career he had 74 of them a record that stood for decades Roose Larger than Life personality and prodigious power at the plate made him a national hero and baseball’s first true super
How baseball transformed through the years.
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