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This team is the first Major League team that Babe Ruth played on.
What is Boston Red Sox?
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"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat".
Who is Babe Ruth?
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The reason Babe Ruth wore the number 3.
What is batting third in the order?
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Held the title of the world heavyweight championship from 1919-1926 and was idolized by sports fan all over America.
Who is Jack Dempsey?
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More books have been written about this Hall of Fame member than any other.
Who is Babe Ruth?
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This rival team that Babe Ruth joined for his second team in the league.
What is the New York Yankees?
200
"Ruth was New York incarnate—uncouth and raw, flamboyant and flashy, oversized, out of scale, and absolutely unstoppable".
Who is Glenn Stout?
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Ranked him number one on the list of "Baseball's 100 Greatest Players".
What is The Sporting News?
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This man beat Jack Dempsey to win the title of world heavyweight champion.
Who is Gene Tunney?
200
$4.4 million
What is the amount a Babe Ruth jersey was resonantly auctioned off for?
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The number of World Series wins in Babe Ruth's career.
What is 7?
300
"a unique figure in the social history of the United States".
Who is Bob Creamer?
300
In 1999, baseball fans named this player to the Major League Baseball All-Century Team, with a team leading 1,158,044 votes.
Who is Babe Ruth?
300
Now all the "Galloping Ghost" and played for the University of Illinois football team.
Who is Red Grange?
300
"I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun." Babe Ruth said this to...
Who is Colonel Huston?
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The finishing career wins and losses for Babe Ruth as a Major League pitcher.
What is 94-46?
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"I can't remember a day this year or last when I did not hear the name of Babe Ruth."
Who is Hank Aaron?
400
The era is Babe Ruth known for starting.
What is the long ball era?
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In 1926 became the first golfer to win the U.S. Open and the British Open in the same year and was thought of as the best golfer of the decade in the 1920's.
Who is Bobby Jones?
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Ruth Cleveland.
Who was the famous candy bar, "Baby Ruth", originally named after?
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The number 714.
What is the amount of home runs hit by Babe Ruth in his career?
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"The fascination with his life and career continues. He is a bombastic, sloppy hero from our bombastic, sloppy history, origins undetermined, a folk tale of American success. His moon face is as recognizable today as it was when he stared out at Tom Zachary on a certain September afternoon in 1927. If sport has become the national religion, Babe Ruth is the patron saint. He stands at the heart of the game he played, the promise of a warm summer night, a bag of peanuts, and a beer. And just maybe, the longest ball hit out of the park".
Who is Montville?
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This design was added to the New York Yankees jersey to help make Babe Ruth "slim".
What is pinstripes?
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This man dominated world tennis in the 1920's.
Who is Bill Tilden?
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The movie title that Babe Ruth starred in.
What is Babe Comes Home?
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