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Babe Ruth
Title: Babe Ruth
Category: History
Details: Words: 533 | Pages: 2.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Babe Ruth
(1895-1948)
The crowd that jammed Chicago's Wrigley Field booed when the big
man with the barrel-shaped body and pipestem legs came up to bat. It
was the third game of the 1932 World Series between the Chicago Cubs
and the New York Yankees. The score was 4-4 in the fifth inning. Cub
pitcher Charlie Root threw one strike, then another. Grinning, the
batter stepped back and seemed to point to the distant center-field
bleachers. Root pitched, the big …showed first 75 words of 533 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 533 total…the unhappy Ruth laid
down his bat for the last time. He ended his career in baseball as a
coach for the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1938.
In 1947 Ruth, who had always loved children, took a position with
the Ford Motor Company to help with its Legion junior baseball
program. He died of throat cancer in New York City on Aug. 16, 1948,
with one dream unfulfilled: his reputation for irresponsibility
blocked his wish to manage a big-league team.
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