Frases de Babe Ruth
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George Herman "Babe" Ruth, Jr. , mais conhecido como Babe Ruth e Bambino, foi um jogador americano de beisebol. Começou sua carreira na MLB como arremessador canhoto jogando pelo Boston Red Sox, mas atingiu fama como rebatedor, jogando como defensor externo pelo New York Yankees. Ruth estabeleceu muitos recordes em rebatidas , incluindo home runs na carreira , corridas impulsionadas , walks , slugging percentage , e on-base plus slugging ; os dois últimos permanecem até hoje. Ruth é tido como um dos grandes heróis do esporte americano e é considerado por muitos como o maior jogador de beisebol de todos os tempos. É um dos cinco primeiros a entrar para o National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum em 1936.

Aos 7 anos de idade, Ruth foi enviado para a escola St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, um reformatório onde aprendeu lições de vida e habilidades do beisebol do Irmão Matthias Boutlier do Christian Brothers, um disciplinador da escola e bom jogador de beisebol. Em 1914, Ruth assinou com as ligas menores jogando pelo Baltimore Orioles mas logo foi vendido para o Red Sox. Por volta de 1916, já tinha significativa reputação como ótimo arremessador e às vezes rebatia longos home runs, um feito pouco usual para qualquer jogador pré-1920 na era da bola morta. Embora Ruth tenha vencido, por duas vezes, 23 jogos em uma temporada como arremessador e campeão por três vezes da World Series com o Boston, ele queria jogar todo dia e foi permitido que começasse a atuar como defensor externo. Com tempo de jogo mais regular, quebrou o recorde de home runs em temporada única em 1919.

Depois desta temporada, o proprietário do Red Sox, Harry Frazee, de maneira controversa vendeu Ruth ao Yankees, um ato que, juntamente com a subsequente seca de campeonatos do Boston, se popularizou como a "Maldição do Bambino". Em seus quinze anos com o New York, Ruth ajudou o Yankees com sete campeonatos da Liga Americana e quatro World Series. Seu poder em rebatidas o levou a ter cada vez mais home runs o que, não só atraía os fãs para os estádios e impulsionou a popularidade do esporte como também ajudou a inaugurar a era da Bola viva do beisebol, em que se evoluiu de um jogo de baixa pontuação e muito mais estratégico para um esporte onde o home run era um fator importante. Como parte do Yankees, conhecido na época como "Murderer's Row" de 1927, Ruth rebateu 60 home runs, estendendo seu recorde em temporada única da MLB. Se aposentou em 1935 após um curto período com o Boston Braves. Durante sua carreira, Ruth levou o título de mais home runs durante a temporada em doze ocasiões.

A personalidade forte e carismática de Ruth fizeram dele importante figura no chamado "Roaring Twenties". Durante sua carreira, foi alvo de intensa publicidade e atenção pública por seus feitos no beisebol e sua fama fora de campo como beberrão e mulherengo. Seu estilo de vida, muitas vezes imprudente foi temperado pela sua vontade de fazer o bem, visitando crianças em hospitais e orfanatos. Foi lhe negado cargos no beisebol após sua aposentadoria, muito provavelmente pelo seu mau comportamento durante parte de sua carreira. Em seus anos finais, Ruth fez muitas aparições públicas, especialmente em apoio ao esforço de guerra durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Em 1946, foi diagnosticado com câncer e morreu dois anos mais tarde Ruth permanece como parte da cultura americana e em 2018, o Presidente Donald Trump lhe concedeu, de maneira póstuma, a Medalha Presidencial da Liberdade. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. Fevereiro 1895 – 16. Agosto 1948
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Babe Ruth: Frases em inglês

“Hell no, it isn't a fact. Only a damned fool would do a thing like that. You know there was a lot of pretty rough ribbing going on on both benches during that Series. When I swung and missed that first one, those Cubs really gave me a blast. So I grinned at 'em and held out one finger and told 'em it'd only take one to hit it. Then there was that second strike and they let me have it again. So I held up that finger again and I said I still had that one left. Naw, keed, you know damned well I wasn't pointin' anywhere. If I'd have done that, Root would have stuck the ball right in my ear. And besides that, I never knew anybody who could tell you ahead of time where he was going to hit a baseball. When I get to be that kind of fool, they`ll put me in the booby hatch.”

Responding to Chicago sportscaster Hal Totten in the spring of 1933, as to whether Ruth had actually 'called' his 5th-inning home run in Game 3 of the 1932 World Series, as quoted in "Oct. 1, 1932 The Yankees' Babe Ruth Gestures Toward Wrigley Field's Bleachers Then Homers Off The Cubs' Charlie Root, Apparently Calling His Shot In Game 3 Of The World Series" http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1987-11-01/sports/8703230677_1_babe-ruth-cub-bench-world-series-history/3 by Jerome Holtzman, in The Chicago Tribune (1987)

“There's one thing in baseball that always gets my goat and that's the intentional pass. It isn't fair to the batter. It isn't fair to his club. It's a raw deal for the fans and it isn't baseball. By "baseball," I mean good square American sportsmanship because baseball represents America in sport. If we get down to unfair advantages in our national game we are putting out a mighty bad advertisement.”

From "Babe Speaks His Mind Anent the Deliberate Pass," http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1920/08/14/page/7/ by Ruth (as told to Pegler), in The Chicago Tribune (August 14, 1920), p. 7; reprinted as "The Intentional Pass," https://books.google.com/books?id=SAAlxi-0EZYC&pg=PA32 in Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball, p. 32

“Don't worry about my weight. Fifteen pounds more and I'll be grand. I never felt better in my life. I'm going to lead the league in batting again and maybe I'll make a new home run record.”

Speaking to reporters after arriving at spring training significantly overweight, roughly one month before being hospitalized and missing the first six weeks of the 1925 season, his worst as a Yankee, as quoted in "At the Training Camps," https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mhgsAAAAIBAJ&sjid=A7oEAAAAIBAJ&pg=1687%2C1993027&dq=don't-worry-about-weight The Florence Times (March 2, 1925), p. 4

“To My Friend John Sylvester,
Just a few words reminding you that I have not forgotten my sick little pal. Sorry I couldn’t get out to see you but here’s hoping this little message of cheer finds you well on the road to recovery. I will try to knock you another homer maybe two today.
Best regards from your friend and rooter,
“Babe” Ruth.”

Handwritten note http://greyflannelauctions.com/lot-31264.aspx, written on October 9, 1926, just prior to Game 6 of the World Series, reproduced in "Bambino's Death Stirs Prayers; Baseball Memories Roused; Message Recalls Story of Homers in '26" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10924759/, The Salt Lake Tribune (August 18, 1948), p. 24

“I think my mother hated me.”

In The Babe Ruth Story; reproduced in Babe Ruth: His Life and Times https://books.google.com/books?id=iBZIirjqJpwC&q=i%22i+think+my+mother+hated+me%22+%22babe+Ruth%22&dq=i%22i+think+my+mother+hated+me%22+%22babe+Ruth%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRx8u24fPQAhXGWCYKHdq-CQIQ6AEIFjAA (1995) by Paul Adomites, p. 22; and in "Being Babe Ruth's Daughter" http://grantland.com/features/being-babe-ruth-daughter/ by Jane Leavy, at Grantland (January 3, 2012)

“I'd play for half my salary if I could hit in this dump all the time.”

Assessment of Wrigley Field shouted during batting practice on October 1, 1932, just prior to Game 3 of the World Series, as recalled by Ruth in a February 1944 interview with Chicago Daily News sports editor John Carmichael; as reproduced in "The Sports Parade" by Braven Dryer, in The Los Angeles Times (February 23, 1944), p. A7; and in Babe Ruth's Called Shot: The Myth and Mystery of Baseball's Greatest Home Run https://books.google.com/books?id=JlOsBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80 (2014) by Ed Sherman, p. 80

“I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.”

As quoted in Baseball's Greatest Quotes (1982) by Kevin Nelson; reproduced in "Morning Briefing: Babe Ruth Was Not a Superstitious Man, Except on 714 Occasions," in The Los Angeles Times (March 1, 1982), p. D2
Unsourced variants:
Just one.Whenever I hit a home run, I make certain I touch all four bases.
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

“Brother Matthias had the right idea about training a baseball club. He made every boy on the team play every position in the game, including the bench. A kid might pitch a game one day and find himself behind the bat the next or perhaps out in the sun-field. You see Brother Matthias' idea was to fit a boy to jump in in any emergency and make good. So whatever I have at the bat or on the mound or in the outfield or even on the bases, I owe directly to Brother Matthias.”

On the mentoring he received from Brother Matthias Boutlier, Prefect of Discipline at St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, in "Ruth, As a Kid, Learns to Play in Any Position" http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1920/08/09/page/15/ by Ruth, as told to Westbrook Pegler (uncredited), in The Chicago Tribune (August 9, 1920), p. 15; reprinted as "We Did Everything," https://books.google.com/books?id=SAAlxi-0EZYC&pg=PA6&dq=%22Brother+Matthias+had+the+right+idea%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv7_zWgLnQAhUJ7yYKHZQFA_EQ6AEIGjAB#v=onepage&q=%22Brother%20Matthias%20had%20the%20right%20idea%22&f=false in Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball (2011), p. 6

“As Duke Ellington once said, "the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton." […] About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business — well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck.”

Failed attempt—during a partially scripted radio interview, broadcast live on August 13, 1930—to deliver a familiar but apparently apocryphal quote, followed by his explanation for that failure; as quoted in The Tumult and the Shouting; My Life in Sport (1954) by Grantland Rice; reprinted in "The World I Loved — Part 1: My Baseball Hall of Fame" by Rice, in The New York Herald Tribune (October 3, 1954), pp. 8-9

“That kid sure can bust 'em.”

Circa June 1923, on observing a young Lou Gehrig—almost two years prior to commencing his record-breaking consecutive game streak—take batting practice; as quoted in The Babe Ruth Story https://books.google.com/books?id=5mu1AAAAIAAJ&q=%22that+kid+sure+can+bust+%27em%22+intitle:The+intitle:Babe+intitle:Ruth+intitle:Story&dq=%22that+kid+sure+can+bust+%27em%22+intitle:The+intitle:Babe+intitle:Ruth+intitle:Story&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHhvezyoHcAhVm2oMKHZsSAfAQ6AEIKTAA (1948) by Ruth (as told to Bob Considine), p. 130. In the book, Ruth notes that his statement had evidently given rise to Gehrig's now largely forgotten nickname Buster (the latter having first appeared in print on February 29th, the following year https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=B71SAAAAIBAJ&sjid=YH0DAAAAIBAJ&pg=5967%2C5402147&dq=yankee-includes-lou-gehrig), adding that, despite having long since been eclipsed by such handles as "The Iron Horse" and even "Larrupin' Lou," Gehrig's lesser-known moniker did indeed have its heyday during the early years of his Yankee tenure https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=%22buster+gehrig%22&dr_year=1925-1929. (Not surprisingly, this heyday entailed a good deal of Ruth/Gehrig alliteration, along the lines of "The Buster and the Babe" https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=gehrig+%22the+buster+and+the+babe%22&dr_year=1927-1937 and "the Big Bam and the Boy Buster" https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=Ruth+Gehrig+%22big+bam%22+%22boy+buster%22&dr_year=1927-1928.)

“I'm glad that I've played every position on the team, because I feel that I know more about the game and what to expect of the other fellows. Lots of times I hear men being roasted for not doing this or that when I know, from my all round experience, that they couldn't have been expected to do it. It's a pity some of our critics hadn't learned the game from every position.”

From "Learn Every Job On Team, Babe's Tip to Success—And Marry" http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1920/08/24/page/11/ by Ruth (as told to Pegler), in The Chicago Tribune (August 24,1920), p. 11; reprinted as "The Game I Enjoyed Most" https://books.google.com/books?id=SAAlxi-0EZYC&pg=PA79 in Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball, p. 79

“A ballplayer should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.”

As quoted in Encyclopedia of Baseball (1951) by Hy Turkin and S. C. Thompson; reproduced in "Good Field, Good Hit Sums Up New Baseball Data Book" http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1951/05/27/page/44/article/good-field-good-hit-sums-up-new-baseball-data-book by Robert Cromie, in The Chicago Tribune (May 27, 1951), p. A4

“If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around six hundred!”

As quoted in Stolen! : A History of Base Stealing (1999) by Russell Roberts, Ch. 4 "The Babe Blasts the Steal" p. 71

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