The road for records

During 15 seasons in New York, Ruth led the league or placed in the top ten in batting average, slugging percentage, runs, total bases, home runs, RBI, and walks several times.

Ruth's 60 home runs in 1927 was the single season home run record for 34 years until it was broken by Roger Maris (61 HR in 1961), then by Barry Bonds (73 HR in 2001).

The lifetime total of homeruns is considered in Baseball as the most important number. Indeed, it required to stay on top during such a long time (at least 20 years).

Ruth's lifetime total of 714 home runs was once considered one of Major League Baseball's "unbreakable" records, but Hank Aaron broke it in 1974 (Barry Bonds broke Aaron's record in 2007). Barry Bonds is today at 762 carreer home runs and said yesterday that he won't retire this season, so this main record will rise again for sure in the following years...

But Babe Ruth's 714 home runs are still on the 3rd position on the list and considering the technology and research (material and biological) progress since the last 80 years, this performance can be considered as the hugest in baseball.

The Curse of the bambino

The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition cited, often jokingly, as a reason for the failure of the Boston Red Sox baseball team to win the World Series in the 86 year period from 1918 until 2004.

The curse was said to have begun after the Red Sox sold Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees. The flip side of the curse was New York's success—after the sale, the once-lackluster Yankees became one of the most successful franchises in North American professional sports.


Talk of the curse as an ongoing phenomenon ended in 2004, when the Red Sox came back from an 0-3 deficit to beat the Yankees in the 2004 American League Championship Series and then went on to sweep the St. Louis Cardinals to win the 2004 World Series.

It was such a part of Boston culture that when a road sign on the city's much-used Storrow Drive was vandalized from "Reverse Curve" to "Reverse The Curse", officials left it in place until after the Red Sox won the Series.

Who's the Bambino ?

George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948), also popularly known as "Babe", "The Bambino", and "The Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914-1935. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest baseball players in history. Many polls place him as the number one player of all time.

Uniform : #3 (retired from the New York Yankees uniforms in 1948)

Position : Outfielder/Pitcher

Teams : Boston Red Sox (1914-1919), New York Yankees (1920-1934), Boston Braves (1935)

Carreer statistic
- Batting Average : .342
- Homeruns : 714
- Runs batted in : 2213

Inducted into the Hall Of Fame in 1936