2º ESO BILINGUAL PROJECT P.E./ ENGLISH

1. BABE
RUTH

2. INDEX
•Biography
•Personal information
•Personal archivements
•Curiosities
•Sport information
•Clothes
•Sport dificulty
•Physical condition

3. BIOGRAPHY
•George Herman Ruth, Jr. (Baltimore, February 6,
1895 - New York, August 16, 1948), better known
as Babe Ruth was an American baseball player. He
played a total of 22 seasons in Major League
Baseball between 1914 and 1935. It was introduced
into the National Baseball Hall of Fame and
Museum in 1936.

4. PERSONAL INFORMATION
• George's parents, Kate Schamberger-Ruth and George Herman Ruth
Sr., fathered eight children of whom only two survived infancy. As a
child, her parents attended a tavern and he was left alone to defend
himself, so decided to take him to seven years in an orphanage and
reformatory: St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys Catholic
missionary, where he visited rarely. In this place it was described as
an incorrigible for their unwillingness to accept the rules. He was a
priest named Mathias who assumed the role of father of Babe, and
channeled in life and baseball. From an early age he showed
qualities for this sport.

5. PERSONAL ARCHIVEMENTS
•Ruth joined the National Baseball Hall of Fame and
Museum on January 29, 1936 along with Ty Cobb,
Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson and Walter
Johnson, in a ceremony in Cooperstown, New York.
Five members were the first to be introduced in the
Hall of Fame of the sport.

6. CURIOSITIES
• His beginnings were as a brilliant pitcher. Just 20 years old, Jack Dunn, owner of the
Baltimore Orioles, recognized his talent and hired him. The players saw him
appointed him as the new babe (baby) of Dunn Jack, the nickname he was. Just five
months after his arrival in this equipment was purchased by the Boston Red Sox
• Its activity outside the field was varied. He was spokesman for the Government of
the United States during World War II to acquire bonds, visited orphanages and
hospitals, and lectured on the radio.
• in 1946 he was diagnosed with throat cancer. That same year, during a visit to
Mexico City from Veracruz magnate Jorge Pasquel he offered to be Manager or the
Mexican Baseball League High Commissioner, but explained that he was with a
treatment and had to be in New York.

7. SPORT INFORMATION
• Baseball, also called baseball or base ball, is a team sport played between two
teams of nine players each.
• It is considered one of the most popular sports in Australia, Canada, Colombia,
South Korea, Cuba, United States, Holland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama,
Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, South Africa, Taiwan and Venezuela. The countries
considered powers of the sport are concentrated in the Americas (North, Central,
Caribbean) and in Asia, where the European and African continents laggards.
However Europe has two good examples (Netherlands and Italy) ; and in Africa only
include the selection of South Africa, which has some good talent.

8. CLOTHES
•Babe Ruth was wearing a pants and a
shirt with black and white lines also
wearing a cap, he was wearing
stockings and black shoes.

9. SPORT DIFFICULTY
•The only difficulty that baseball is hit,
base by base to go and reach the end
without being removed
•when you get to throw the ball the
only difficulty is to ensure that the
contrary do not give ball

10. PHYSICAL CONDITION
•Babe Ruth had high physical condition due
to the long hours of training dedicated to
your favorite sport. to practice this sport
you should be able to have free time to
train enough to hit and throw the ball hard