Babe Ruth
Babe Ruth was an American professional baseball player widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the sport's history, whose prodigious home run hitting helped popularize baseball as America's national pastime.
Ruth began his career as a talented left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox before being converted into an everyday outfielder to take advantage of his exceptional hitting ability.
After being sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, in a transaction historically dubbed the 'Curse of the Bambino,' Ruth became the sport's biggest star, setting numerous home run records, including 60 in a single season in 1927.
Ruth's combination of power hitting and larger-than-life personality helped transform baseball's popularity in the 1920s, and he remains one of the most iconic figures in American sports history, decades after his death in 1948.