How To Use Babe Ruth In A Sentence
- The nuances of scientific baseball could not compete with the brute strength, virile showmanship, and instant gratification of the round-tripper, and the bellwether of brawn, of course, was Babe Ruth. WILLIE MAYS
- As the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, he rightfully believed that the title position put his place in the uppity-stratospheric levels shared by other internationally famous, extremely wealthy and very powerful male WASP sports figures of his day (think Babe Ruth or John L. Sullivan). The Daily News - News
- Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth were 1936 inductees in the National Baseball Hall of Fame
- Baseball, which has a penchant for antonomasia, has dubbed players the "Sultan of Swat" (Babe Ruth), "The Georgia Peach" (Ty Cobb), and the "Iron Horse" (Lou Gehrig).
- ‘When we were kids, everybody played a lot of sandlot ball,’ said the director of the Babe Ruth Museum.
- If these estimates are close, Williams would have ranked only behind Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth in lifetime homers.
- •Josh Gibson: Often called "the black Babe Ruth," Gibson is widely regarded as the greatest slugger from the Negro leagues in the pre-integration era. There's trio of Oh, Gibson, Espino among home run royalty
- Bad sportsmen have always secretly been in the game, but it seemed a longstanding gentleman's agreement that the press would allow the Babe Ruths and the Ty Cobbs and the Wilt Chamberlains of the world their private lecheries off-the-field; after all, no one wanted to make the kids cry, and if the greats used a little tobacky in the dug-out, well at least they tried to keep it discreet.
- There is an argument that some of the greatest figures, at least in athletics, may not have had the careers they had because their off-field antics, from Babe Ruth to Mickey Mantle, would have been the subject of scrutiny that Brett Favre and Tiger Woods now go through. Joe Favorito: Helping Athletes Heal Their P.A.S.T.
- But they are forgetting that Babe Ruth could pitch, yet the Yankees chose to use him as an outfielder.
