Babe Ruth, A hero?

Question

My friend is suppose to be doing a 5 paragraph essay on babe ruth, is he a hero or not? apparently things i've been tellling her arent helping, plus, when she searches google they only give her stats.

whats your opinion on the subject? is he or isnt he a heroic person?

these details are very helpful guys.

even if you only know little things about his life, im sure theyd help her

:)

Answer 1

Until age 7 he lived in the family apartment above the Baltimore tavern that his father owned. He saw many things that a boy that young should not be exposed to there.

When he was 7 he was considered "incorrigible" and sent to live at a boy's industrial school. It was here that he was trained to be a tailor and was first exposed to baseball.

Being left-handed in the early 1900's and poor he did not have access to a left-handed baseball glove. He had to adapt using a right-handed glove when he learned to play catcher.

After teasing his team's pitcher, Brother Mathias (one of the teachers at the industrial school) made him move out to the pitcher's mound for the first time to see it was more difficult than he thought. This was the beginning of George Ruth's baseball future.

He did very well as a pitcher; so well that the Baltimore Orioles (then a minor league team) signed him to a contract when he was only 17 years old. The owner/manager of the team was a man named Jack Dunn. The older players saw the very young George Ruth and said "Here is another one of Jack's babes". That is how he became Babe Ruth. Just a note: A "babe" at that time was simply slang for a young adult.

Babe Ruth was one of the best pitchers in all of baseball and quickly rose to the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox. With the Red Sox, Ruth was the best pitcher in the American League twice---he would have won the Cy Young Award if the award had existed then.

While a pitcher, Babe Ruth was a very good hitter. It was later decided that he would help the team more playing and hitting every day than he would pitching only every five days.

During the early 1900's the New York Yankees were nothing special as a team, never going to the World Series. The owner of the Yankees new that the Boston Red Sox had some real financial needs and offered over $100,000 to the Red Sox to buy his contract.

When Babe Ruth moved to the Yankees it was the year after the Chicago White Sox team allegedly "threw" the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Major League baseball needed a distraction to bring back the fans. Babe Ruth was the new super star that had the ability to hit further and more often than anyone ever had before.

Babe Ruth was a superstar player, earning more money than any sports hero ever had before. And he lived like a superstar that was not raised with the same "moral" upbringing by his parents as most people of his generation.
He lived like a wildman, drinking and chasing women everywhere he went. He did this during a time when sports reporters protected the sports stars and did not report on the bad, only the good.

As for being a hero, he was a hero to the American sports public of that era. Had he played now and acted the same way, he would not be as revered by the fans of baseball.

Answer 2

As they retire, more heroes will come. Chipper Jones had a lot of people calling him heroes, especially when he retired. David Ortiz or Derek Jeter should be the next big heroes. Maybe even Andruw Jones but lately he's been out of the baseball world and onto the bench.

Answer 3

He is a hero. He is friendly to children, and he would give them rides in his car, give them stuff, and would visit them in hospitals. He was also a great autograph signer. He was a good person. He was also a good father, and the greatest baseball player of all time.

Answer 4

hero

Answer 5

In his day, Babe Ruth was a super hero, more popular than the president. He inspired generations of kids. In WWII the Japanese, hoping to taunt US soldiers and make them angry, would shout between battles over the line, "Babe Ruth is a son of a *****!" These days, people don't want to admit to having heroes, and a lot of Babe's drinking and carousing have come to the fore, but he is still, nevertheless, the best known name in baseball. I'll edit in any site I can find that talks about him.


http://sports.jrank.org/pages/4126/Ruth-Babe.html

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG02/yeung/Baberuth/home.html

http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=b_ruth


http://www.baberuth.com/flash/about/viewheadline.php?id=946

Answer 6

Yes he was heroic. He did have problems
just as any other celebrated person. One
problem was he threw his money away.
Literally. He would give huge tips and give
people money just to be doing so. Also in his
last days of fame his drinking problem became
huge. He grew up in an orphanage. There
was one movie made of his life that I can
remember and it was made a very very long
time ago.

Answer 7

Babe Ruth...

I think he was a hero just because of the way he helped the USA get by during the depression. But he also drank heavily & cussed. He is my hero its up to you if he's a real hero.

Answer 8

The guy obviously had his faults, but he also showed that kids from a hardscrabble background can make good. Remember, he was such a bad kid that they had to send him to an "industrial school," which is essentially a place for orphans and juvenile delinquents. Considering what he made of himself from there, I can see how kids in similar situations might see him as a hero.

Answer 9

Chad K is correct! He was looked up to by millions though for his great baseball skills and accomplishments. Try wikipedia for more info. Good luck!

Answer 10

It depends on your perspective.

He didn't save babies from burning houses or anything, but he was an iconic figure who inspired hundreds of thousands of kids to dream big.