Today’s episode highlights the majority of Babe Ruth’s professional baseball career. Through the years, Ruth stuns teammates and baseball fans with his unbelievable hitting skills and home run records. Not only does Ruth set many batting records, but with him as part of the team, the Yankees are winning World Series games and setting attendance records.
As the first years of Babe Ruth’s baseball career are super successful, they contrast heavily to the despair of his personal life. In 1925, however, Babe Ruth has his worst baseball year yet, and he struggles with almost everything in his life - baseball, teammates, personal life, food, and alcohol, to name a few. Ruth gets sick, he’s hospitalized for a month, and he’s suspended from the team multiple times that season.
Fortunately for baseball and for the Yankees, Babe Ruth is able to pull himself together and get his life in order. With encouragement from Brother Matthias and training help from Artie McGovern, Ruth gets into shape and returns to the 1926 season ready to return to baseball greatness. Ruth continues to play for the Yankees until 1934, and he joins the Braves for one final season in 1935 before he retires.
We end this episode wondering what Babe Ruth will do during his retirement. Join us next week to find out what he does in his post-baseball days!
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Recommended reading:
"The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth" by Leigh Montville
“The Babe Ruth Story” by Babe Ruth and Bob Considine
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