Babe Ruth

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The Babe got paid 2 million dollars a year. If you guys think that's a lot, it really isn't. Ball players these days get paid 6 times that amount for one year. The Babe played 22 long years of baseball. During those years of ball, the Babe got sick because he wouldn't listen to his dietition. He ate way off what he was supposed to. Let's put it this way; instead of eating potatoes and carrots, he ate a chili dog and a barbecue sandwich.

Babe was the "Big Stuff" of baseball. Before he came many fans did not come to the game. When the Babe came all the fans started to watch. Sooner or later, they came. Many of the fans loved the Babe because he hit so well ,but he was a pitcher too. He pitched for 5 years. He took Boston to the Playoffs a few times. In Mac Davis' words "the biggest bargain the game ever had."

One day Babe Ruth was watching a baseball game and he ate 10 hotdogs. He had a heart attack. He was lucky he was alive. Babe did everything big. He ate big, hit, spent, and struck-out big. Very suprising he struck-out more than he hit.

The Babe was very nice to the fans. He wouldn't leave until every person got an autograph.

When the Babe retired he only lived for another 10/12 years. After a while the Babe hit the bucket and passed away. A couple years after the Babe died another ball player on his team was sick. The ball player was Lou Gehrig. He had an unknowned disease and passed away. After Lou Gehrig died, they named his disease The Lou Gehrig disease.

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As you all know Babe Ruth (known as the Babe) was the best batter in his generation. That's why you'll love him. Babe Ruth loved to play baseball.

In 1932, Babe Ruth and his fellow New York Yankee teammates were in the 1932 World Series. The Yankees had to go to Chicago after they swiped two games out of the Chicago Cubs at Yankee Stadium. It was Babe's turn to show Chicago that he wasn't getting older; he was getting younger.

Chicago fans were ready to boo the Babe. The fans were going to make him cry. The Yankees got to the stadium and they started playing. The fans were being nasty and talking trash to the Babe, but he just turned around and laughed. Early in the 4th inning, the fans were doing the same thing and Babe smacked a homer to right and the crowd booed. Babe just ran around the bases and laughed. The fans were so keen that they threw lemon peels at the Babe. The Babe was getting mad.

The crowd was booing Babe and his teammate, Joe Dimaggio, even more, but with a few back to back homers they showed the fans they're not dirt in the street. The fans got even madder. But Babe kept going.

The Cubs nailed a fly ball to Babe. He tried to catch it, but it bounced over him, and the Cubs tied the game.

At the top of the 5th, Babe stepped up to bat, and the crowd booed. Charlie Root was the pitcher for the Cubs. He pitched the first pitch. It was a strike. Then he pitched another pitch. It was another strike. But then Babe looked at the Cubs dugout and pointed to dead center. The Cubs were confused. They didn't understand what he was trying to say. A quote from Andrew Gutelle, Babe said, "I'm going to drill the next ball you throw into the bleachers, and you can't stop me!" (Baseball's Best pg.10) The very next ball that Root pitched the Babe drilled it right where he pointed. The fans were astonished, and they clapped. The New York Yankees ended up winning that and the series.

Some fans claimed that he didn't point where he was going to hit the ball. A quote from Andrew Gutelle, " the only proof is a home video taken by a fan in the stands that day."