Once upon a time, there lived a man named George Herman Ruth, people called him "Babe". He was a large man with a happy smile. He travelled the country and people paid money to see him play. Because he brought them joy and excitement. People said he hit a ball so high it would strike a cloud and cause rain to pour and so far that the human eye could not follow.

It was said that his smile could chase away the dark and make the sun shine, and that with a wink of his eye he could make a sick child well again.

It has been written that he once pointed to a distant spot and then proceeded to drive a baseball to that very spot.

It has been said he could eat 25 hotdogs in a single sitting and settle them with one mighty belch.

It has been said he saved baseball after the scandal of the 1919 World Series and that one time the 3 most famous Americans were George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Babe Ruth.

Ruth was physically unique, possessed with a rare combination of lightening reflexes , superb judgment and timing and excellent eye sight.

He was a lusty eater and drinker, and by all reports a grand -scale womanizer.

take a look at 1921. he hit 59 HR. (for a 3rd yr in a row setting a new 1 season home run record)

Of every 8 HR's that year in the American League, one of those was hit by the Babe. think about that . has that settled in yet?

He drove in 171 runs and scored 177, an all time high. he walked 144 times. He hit 44 doubles and 16 triples. amassed a record 457 total bases and batted .378.

his slugging % was .846, the year before was .847 and if you don't think those are some potatoes, consider that no hitter in history except Ruth himself , has ever came within 100 points of either figure.

It was the single most sustained performance in baseball history. he hit above .370 six times with a high of .393 in 1923. His lifetime batting avg is .342. His life time slugging average is .690, 56 points higher than runner up Ted Williams.

between 1926 & 1933, he led the league in walks 7 of those 8 years. despite the fact he had Lou Gehrig batting behind him EVERY single 17ing time. If that does not prove he was the most feared man that ever stepped into a batter's box, I don't know what does.

he is , and will always be the all time sultan of swat, hand's down.

no batter has ever separated himself further apart from his fellow players in ANY player in baseball than the Babe. it's not even remotely close.