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arguably the most famous U.S. baseball player who held the home run hitting record for 39 years (1895-1948)- Baltimore is the birthplace of Babe Ruth and Thurgood Marshall, EdgarAllan Poe and Billie Holiday.Wes Moore -- The Other Wes Moore
- Babe Ruth, parentless at age seven when his parents handed him over to Catholic missionaries.Gaby Rodriguez -- The Pregnancy Project
- It was as though Babe Ruth's sixty-homer season had been eclipsed in one game.James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
- And this Trivia Contest, according to Ernie Eco, was all about Babe Ruth.Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now
- Babe Ruth was a pitcher then playing for Boston.Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- But today the men didn't want to talk about Babe Ruth's pitching record.Lauren Tarshis -- I Survived: The Shark Attacks of 1916
- He fingered the silky lapel of Babe Ruth's smoking jacket.Don DeLillo -- Underworld
- "Who broke Babe Ruth's record of seven hundred fourteen home runs?"Sharon M. Draper -- Out of My Mind
- But the best moment was when I mei: Babe Ruth.W. William Winokur -- The Perfect Game
- That's Babe Ruth and Josh Gibson.August Wilson -- Fences
- The list includes Babe Ruth, Susan, Nancy, Kevin and Craig.Steve Lopez -- The Soloist
- I blessed Babe Ruth with three home runs in game four of the 1926 World Series.Rick Riordan -- The Trials of Apollo
- What is he, Babe Ruth?Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
- At Yankee Stadium, in the Bronx, players were debuting numbered uniforms: Lou Gehrig wore No. 4; Babe Ruth, about to hit his five hundredth home run, wore No. 3.Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
- "That's Babe Ruth.Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
- ...walls, bounded from the ceiling of lavender-bordered milky tiles, while the lords of the city, the barons of insurance and law and fertilizers and motor tires, laid down the law for Zenith; announced that the day was warm-indeed, indisputably of spring; that wages were too high and the interest on mortgages too low; that Babe Ruth, the eminent player of baseball, was a noble man; and that "those two nuts at the Climax Vaudeville Theater this week certainly are a slick pair of actors."Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- Do you know how many home runs Babe Ruth hit in the final game of 1928?Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now
- My father could tell you that and a whole lot more, because he had once met Babe Ruth.Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now
- Do you know how many World Series home runs Babe Ruth hit?Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now
- You probably know that in 1927, Babe Ruth hit his famous sixty home runs in a single season.Gary D. Schmidt -- Okay for Now