George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. started his professional baseball career in 1914 with the minor league Baltimore Orioles. Later in the 1914 season, Babe headed to the Boston Red Sox where he spent all of 5 years as a pitcher and a hitter, something which has been very rarely seen in baseball up until recent years with Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels. Babe was not well known by the Boston fans until later in his career there where went on to break the single season homerun record in his final season with the team.
In late December of 1919, one of the biggest trades in all of baseball occurred, sending Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees who would pay him $27,000 over 3 years. Ruth went on to play with the Yankees from 1920-1934 where he went on to hit his career high 60 homers in the 1927 season, a record that wasn't broken until 1961 by Roger Maris. Ruth's legacy thrived in New York with their new stadium being dubbed "the house that Ruth built" after setting the homerun record.
Click the video below to see Babe Ruth call his shot in the 1932 World Series.
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