History Hop Tags - Babe

1882-05-16

8th Kentucky Derby: Babe Hurd aboard Apollo wins in 2:40.00

1885-05-14

11th Kentucky Derby: Babe Henderson aboard Joe Cotton wins in 2:37.25

1902-05-24

Cleve's Bill Bradley is 1st ALer to hit a HR run in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918

1914-04-22

Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win

1914-07-07

Balt Orioles' (IL) owner Jack Dunn offers Babe Ruth, Ernie Shore & Ben Egan for $10,000 to Connie Mack, who refuses, pleading poverty

1914-07-10

Boston Red Sox purchase Babe Ruth from Baltimore Orioles

1914-07-11

Babe Ruth debuts as a pitcher for Boston Red Sox, he beats Cleve 4-3

1915-05-06

Red Sox Babe Ruth pitching debut & 1st HR, loses to Yanks 4-3 in 15

1916-10-09

Babe Ruth begins 29 2/3 scoreless World Series innings

1917-04-11

Babe Ruth beats NY Yanks, pitching 3-hit 10-3 win for Red Sox

1917-05-07

Red Sox Babe Ruth beats Wash Senator Walter Johnson, 1-0

1917-06-23

Ernie Shore replaces Red Sox pitcher Babe Ruth with a runner on, he throws him out & retires all 26 he faces for a perfect game

1918-05-04

Yankees set record with 8 sacrifices, beat Red Sox's Babe Ruth 5-4

1918-07-08

Babe Ruth's blast over the fence in Fenway scores Amos Strunk, the Red Sox win 1-0 over Cleve, prevailing rules reduce Babe's HR to a triple

1919-07-05

Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his 1st of 72 times

1919-09-08

Babe Ruth hits his 26th HR off Jack Quinn in NY, breaking Buck Freeman's 1899 HR mark of 25

1919-09-20

Babe Ruth ties Ned Williamson's major league mark of 27 HRs

1919-09-24

Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey

1919-09-27

Babe Ruth's 29th HR is 1st of year in Wash (1st in every park in league in one season)

1919-12-26

Yankees & Red Sox reach agreement on transfer of Babe Ruth the Yankees

1920-05-01

Babe Ruth's 1st Yankee HR & 50th of career, out of Polo Grounds

1920-09-29

Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54

1921-06-08

Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM

1921-06-10

Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)

1921-06-13

Yanks' pitcher Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs beating Tigers 11-8

1921-07-12

Babe Ruth sets record of 137 career home runs

1921-08-28

Babe Ruth starts streak of an extra-base hit in 9 straight games

1921-10-02

NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR

1921-10-09

Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer; only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays

1921-10-16

Babe Ruth, Bob Meusel, & Bill Piercy defy Landis ban on World Series

1922-03-06

Babe Ruth signs 3 year contract with NY Yankees at $52,000 a year

1922-05-20

Babe Ruth & Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the NY lineup & go hitless

1922-05-25

Babe Ruth suspended 1 day & fined $200 for throwing dirt on an ump

1922-06-12

St Louis Brown Hub Pruett strikes out Babe Ruth 3 straight times

1922-08-30

Babe Ruth is thrown out of a game for 5th time in 1922

1923-10-11

Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a World Series game

1923-10-23

Babe Ruth makes a postseason exhibition appearance in a Giants uniform

1924-12-22

Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2

1925-04-05

Yankees whip Dodgers in exhibition 16-9 but Babe Ruth collapses in NC due to an ulcer

1925-04-09

Babe Ruth rushed to hospital

1925-04-17

NY Yankee Babe Ruth has ulcer surgery

1925-05-26

Babe Ruth is finally out of bed, 5 weeks after ulcer surgery

1925-08-09

Only time Babe Ruth pinch-hit for, Bobby Veach flies out

1925-08-29

After a night on the town, Babe Ruth shows up late for batting practice Miller Huggins suspends Ruth & slaps a $5,000 fine on him

1926-10-06

Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5

1927-03-02

Babe Ruth becomes highest paid baseball player ($70,000 per year)

1927-04-15

Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)

1927-06-11

Babe Ruth hits 19th & 20th of 60 HRs

1927-07-12

Babe Ruth hits 30th of 60 HRs

1927-08-16

1st HR hit out of Comiskey Park Chicago (NY Yankee Babe Ruth)

1927-08-22

Babe Ruth hits 40th of 60 homers

1927-09-11

Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers

1927-09-29

Babe Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games

1927-09-30

Babe Ruth hits record setting 60th HR (off Tom Zachary)

1927-10-11

Lou Gehrig named AL MVP (Babe Ruth (former winner) not eligible)

1928-08-01

Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 & is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace

1929-08-11

Babe Ruth becomes 1st to hit 500 homers (off Willis Hudlin of Cleve)

1930-03-08

Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with NY Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"

1930-05-21

NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers

1931-04-02

Teenage girl strikes out Babe Ruth & Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game in Chattanooga, Tennessee

1931-04-26

Lou Gehrig hits a HR but is called out for passing a runner, mistake costs him AL home run crown; he & Babe Ruth tie for season

1931-08-21

Babe Ruth hits his 600th HR, off George Blaeholder of Browns

1932-10-01

World Series moves to Chicago, In 5th inning, Babe Ruth waits until he has 2 strikes, points & hits next pitch into center field bleachers

1933-07-06

1st All Star Baseball Game: AL wins 4-2 at Comiskey Park, Chicago, Babe Ruth hits first All Star home run

1933-12-29

Yank refuses to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cin Reds

1934-01-15

Babe Ruth signs a 1934 contract for $35,000 ($17,000 cut)

1934-03-20

Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless inning for Phila A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers

1934-03-21

Babe Didrikson pitches an inning in an A's-Dodgers exhibition game Walks 1, hits the next guy, 3rd guy hits into triple-play

1934-07-13

Babe Ruth hits HR #700 (against Detroit)

1934-07-17

Babe Ruth draws his 2,000th base on balls at Cleveland

1934-08-10

Babe Ruth announces this is his final season as full time player

1934-09-24

2,500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium

1934-09-30

Babe Ruth's final game as a Yankee, goes 0 for 3

1934-10-20

All-Star team led by Babe Ruth & Connie Mack sails to Hawaii & Japan

1934-11-02

Babe Ruth tours Tokyo, Japan

1935-02-26

NY Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves

1935-04-16

Babe Ruth's 1st NL game, for Boston Braves, included a HR

1935-05-25

Babe Ruth hits his last 3 home runs, Boston Braves vs Pirates

1935-05-30

Babe Ruth's final game, goes hitless for Braves against Phillies

1935-05-31

Babe Ruth grounds out in his final at bat

1935-06-02

Babe Ruth, 40, announces his retirement as a player

1935-08-12

Babe Ruth's final game at Fenway Park, 41,766 on hand

1936-01-29

1st players elected to Baseball Hall of Fame: Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson & Walter Johnson

1936-03-09

Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player

1937-03-25

It is revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads

1938-06-18

Babe Ruth is signed as a Dodgers coach for the rest of the season

1938-11-02

Babe Ruth applies for job of St Louis Browns' manager

1939-10-29

NHL Babe Seibert Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-3

1942-08-23

Walter Johnson pitches to Babe Ruth in pregame attraction that draws 69,000 for NY-Wash game (raises $80,000 for Army-Navy relief

1943-12-30

Phillies trade Babe Dahlgren to Pitts for Babe Phelps & cash

1945-08-01

Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth & Jimmy Foxx)

1947-04-27

Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & through out US

1947-06-12

Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win Brit Women's Amateur Golf Champ

1947-08-14

Mildred Babe Didrikson Zaharias gives up amateur status for $300,000

1948-06-13

Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug 16th

1948-07-26

"Babe Ruth Story" premieres, Babe Ruth's last public appearance

1948-08-15

3rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias

1949-04-19

Yankees dedicate a plaque for Babe Ruth

1950-03-19

5th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias

1950-04-30

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA 144-hole Golf Weathervane

1950-06-24

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open

1950-08-08

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA All-American Golf Open

1950-08-13

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship

1951-01-05

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Ponte Vedra Beach Women's Golf Open

1951-01-21

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Women's Golf Open

1951-02-25

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament

1951-04-23

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Richmond Women's Golf Open

1951-08-12

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA World Golf Championship

1951-10-19

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Texas Women's Golf Open

1952-03-16

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship

1952-05-04

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open

1952-10-28

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Women's Texas Golf Open

1953-03-01

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open

1953-04-05

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1953-04-30

Little-Bigger League changes its name to Babe Ruth League

1954-02-20

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Serbin Golf Open

1954-03-07

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open

1954-04-18

Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1954-05-16

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA National Capital Golf Open

1954-07-03

9th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Babe Didrikson-Zaharias

1955-01-23

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open

1955-04-17

Betty Jameson wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1955-05-01

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Tournament

1956-04-15

Marlene Bauer wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1957-04-21

Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1958-04-20

Louise Suggs wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1959-04-12

Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1960-04-10

Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1961-04-23

Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1961-07-18

Commissioner Ford Frick rules Babe Ruth's record of 60 HR in 154-game sched in 1927, must be broken in 1st 154 of 162 games

1961-09-26

Roger Maris hits HR #60 off Jack Fisher, tying Babe Ruth's record

1962-06-03

Betsy Rawls & Kathy wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1963-06-02

Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1964-05-31

Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1964-08-29

On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330)

1965-05-30

Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1965-08-14

Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1

1965-08-20

Eddie Mathews & Hank Aaron (1954-65) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 HRs while playing together on the same team

1966-05-22

Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1967-05-21

Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open

1974-04-04

Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th

1974-04-08

Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th HR, breaking Babe Ruth's record in Atlanta

1976-06-27

Judy Rankin wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Invitational

1997-09-10

Mark McGwire joins Babe as only players to hit 50 HRs in 2 consec yrs

2006-05-28

Barry Bonds hits his 715th career home run, passing Babe Ruth on the all-time list

1835-10-09

Camille Saint-Saëns, Babe

1880-03-12

Babe Towne, World Series Baseball Game

1882-05-18

Babe Adams, American baseball player (d. 1968)

1890-07-20

Freeman H. Owens, How Babe Ruth Hits a Home Run

1893-10-18

Roy Del Ruth, DE, director (About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show)

1895-02-06

George Herman (Babe) Ruth, Baltimore, Maryland, baseball great (NY Yankees)

1901-08-28

Babe London, Scrambled Brains

1903-06-26

Floyd "Babe" Herman, Brooklyn Dodgers' slugger (.324 lifetime average)

1904-11-19

Babe Stafford, Sing, Bing, Sing

1906-01-14

William Bendix, NYC, actor (Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life of Riley)

1906-11-04

Bob Considine, The Babe Ruth Story

1907-9-02

Babe DeFreest, Zorro's Black Whip

1909-02-28

George Zaharias, Babe

1909-06-24

Emmett 'Babe' Wallace, The Black Network

1909-10-27

Brother John Joseph Steren, Babe Ruth

1911-04-02

'Babe' Agamenoni, The Bishop's Wife

1911-06-18

Babe Russin, The Glenn Miller Story

1911-06-26

Babe Didrikson Zaharias [Mildred Ella], Port Arthur, Texas, American athlete (U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame)

1911-06-26

Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Babe

1911-12-21

Josh Gibson, pro baseball player, "Negro Babe Ruth" (hit 800+ HRs)

1914-02-12

Tex Beneke, Babe: Pig in the City

1918-08-08

Nancy Wakeman, Babe Didrikson Zaharias

1919-05-09

Betty Jameson, Babe Didrikson Zaharias

1922-03-27

Dick King-Smith, Babe

1923-05-16

Edward 'Babe' Heffron, Points

1924-10-12

Doris Grau, Babe

1925-04-09

Mickey Champion, Babe's and Ricky's Inn

1926-04-23

Christy Walsh Jr., Babe Ruth: The Man, the Myth, the Legend

1929-02-24

Babe Sargent, The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters

1929-05-07

Babe Parilli, American football player

1930-05-07

Babe Parilli, Super Bowl III

1931-04-07

Joanna Lee, Babe

1931-06-10

Babe Vázquez, Pepito y los robachicos

1935-01-03

Gary Shaffer, Babe

1937-03-21

Bill Capizzi, Babe: Pig in the City

1940-01-27

James Cromwell, Los Angeles, California, American actor (Babe, The Green Mile)

1941-03-13

Thomas Babe, Wild Bill

1941-05-18

Miriam Margolyes, Babe

1941-06-16

Karl Lewis Miller, Babe

1941-08-18

Charles Bartlett, Babe

1943-06-04

Sandra Haynie, Babe Didrikson Zaharias

1945-9-20

Yolanda Veloz, Babe in the Woods

1946-05-20

Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian], El Centro, California, American singer and actress (I Got You Babe, Jack Lalane, Mask)

1946-11-11

Michael Edward-Stevens, Babe

1947-02-18

Dennis De Young, Chicago Il, vocalist (Styx-Babe)

1947-10-08

Tomomi Sawa, Booted Babe, Busted Boss

1948-9-11

Joel Rosenzweig, Babe in the Woods

1949-03-20

Mickey Sholdar, Babe

1949-08-02

Evelyn Krape, Babe

1951-12-31

Craig Marin, Babe, He Calls Me

1952-06-18

Miriam Flynn, Babe

1952-06-20

John Goodman, St Louis Mo, actor (Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe)

1952-08-11

Chu Chu, Babe's and Ricky's Inn

1952-11-14

Chris Noonan, Babe

1952-11-23

Kim Story, Babe: Pig in the City

1953-03-09

John Doyle, Babe

1954-10-08

Carl Vine, Babe

1959-12-05

Babe Laufenberg, 1983 NFL Draft

1959-9-22

Rod Pierce, Babe

1961-04-12

Magda Szubanski, Babe: Pig in the City

1962-12-26

Fabienne Babe, Thieves

1963-01-20

Julie Godfrey, Babe: Pig in the City

1963-08-16

Christine Cavanaugh, Babe

1964-07-11

Goran Radakovic, Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe

1964-10-03

Todd Phillips, Femme Fontaine: Killer Babe for the C.I.A.

1965-11-29

Yvonne Suhor, Babe Ruth

1966-01-25

Ron Hightower, Babe Watch

1968-08-01

Ken Bartlett, Babe

1968-12-27

Dubravka Mijatovic, Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe

1969-9-05

Randy Moll, The Babe

1971-01-11

Thomas Perry, Babe: Pig in the City

1971-01-24

Raelyn Saalman, Babe Watch: Forbidden Parody

1971-02-11

Julia Wall, Bunyan and Babe

1971-9-06

Leila K., Hey Babe!

1972-01-23

Bambi, Hot Body Competition: Babe of the Decade

1972-08-01

Tara O'Connor, Playboy British Babe: Tara King

1975-01-09

Paul Moxey, Babe: Pig in the City

1975-06-10

Liza Pirelli, Hey Babe, Nice Tits!

1977-02-17

Ron Marino, The Babe

1977-10-19

Mo Twister, Hey Babe!

1977-9-09

Kara Naomi White, I Got You Babe

1978-06-19

Brendan Colthurst, The Legend of Babe Ruth

1978-11-15

Vicky Sweet, Sandy Babe Abroad 2

1980-05-16

Brendan Hutt, The Babe

1980-10-25

Clint Nageotte, Babe Ruth

1982-04-29

Paul Maybury, Babe: Pig in the City

1982-05-05

Sharon Babe, Russian Institute: Lesson 1

1982-06-01

Sugar Babe, The Best by Private 50: Lesbian Games

1982-9-18

Kelly Brannigan, Confessions of a Booth Babe

1987-07-31

Brittany Byrnes, Babe

1988-02-11

Jazz Raycole, Babe

1989-12-26

Blayn Barbosa, Babe: Pig in the City

1914-10-14

Baseball legend Babe Ruth (19) weds Helen Woodford

1929-04-17

Baseball great Babe Ruth (34) marries 2nd wife Claire Merritt Hodgson (31)

1921-12-16

Camille Saint-Saëns, Babe

1938-10-29

Babe Towne, World Series Baseball Game

1939-08-25

Babe Siebert, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1904)

1948-08-16

Babe Ruth, Baseball legend (NY Yankees), dies in NY at 53

1948-08-16

Babe Ruth, The Pride of the Yankees

1956-09-17

Mildred E "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, (Olympic-gold-1932), dies at 42

1956-09-27

Babe Didrikson-Zaharias, American Hall of Fame athlete, dies of colon cancer at 45

1956-09-27

Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Babe

1956-12-16

Ziggy Sears, The Babe Ruth Story

1968-07-27

Babe Adams, baseball player (b. 1882)

1980-11-29

Babe London, Scrambled Brains

1984-05-22

George Zaharias, Babe

1984-08-04

Babe Russin, The Glenn Miller Story

1986-03-28

Babe DeFreest, Zorro's Black Whip

1986-07-08

Babe Stafford, Sing, Bing, Sing

1987-11-27

Babe Herman, The Pride of the Yankees

1988-11-09

Christy Walsh Jr., Babe Ruth: The Man, the Myth, the Legend

1991-11-16

Ralph Marrero, actor (Babe, Johnny Suede), dies in car accident at 33

1995-12-30

Doris Grau, Babe

2000-05-30

Tex Beneke, Babe: Pig in the City

2000-12-06

Thomas Babe, Wild Bill

2001-09-17

Brother John Joseph Steren, Babe Ruth

2003-10-24

Joanna Lee, Babe

2006-12-03

Emmett 'Babe' Wallace, The Black Network

2007-03-26

Bill Capizzi, Babe: Pig in the City

2007-12-03

Gary Shaffer, Babe

2008-03-27

Karl Lewis Miller, Babe

2008-08-02

Babe Vázquez, Pepito y los robachicos

2009-02-07

Betty Jameson, Babe Didrikson Zaharias

2010-08-14

Chu Chu, Babe's and Ricky's Inn

2011-01-04

Dick King-Smith, Babe

2011-06-09

Babe Sargent, The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters

2013-12-01

Edward 'Babe' Heffron, Points

2014-10-29

Joel Rosenzweig, Babe in the Woods

2014-11-24

Mickey Champion, Babe's and Ricky's Inn

2014-12-22

Christine Cavanaugh, Babe