Seventy years ago this week, Yankee legend Babe Ruth, the most famous and beloved athlete the world has ever seen, succumbed to the ravages of throat cancer.

George Herman Ruth was better known as Babe Ruth or The Sultan of Swat, The King of Crash, The Colossus of Clout, The Great Bambino, The Wali of Wallop, The Rajah of Rap, The Caliph ...

In 1914, George Herman Ruth was a 19-year-old kid from Baltimore playing minor league baseball when he hit his first professional home run during a game in Fayetteville, where he also got the ...

He treasured them — particularly one of George Herman Ruth, a 19-year-old pitcher for the minor league Orioles — for years, eventually passing them on to his son. That Ruth card is now one of ...

On Saturday, March 7, 1914, George Herman Ruth planted his feet in the batter’s box of the baseball diamond at the Cape Fear Fair Grounds in Fayetteville, N.C., and slammed a pitch. The ...

George Herman Ruth, world’s greatest baseball player, came into our midst on the noon train today slanting one eye at his traveling bag and the other at the overcast sky. “Low visibility ...

George Herman Ruth Sr. died in August 1918 after falling and hitting his head while breaking up a quarrel involving members of his second wife’s family outside the tavern.

It's been nearly a century since George Herman Ruth, better known as "The Babe," last picked up a baseball bat in a Major League game. However, artifacts related to the Yankees' legend are still ...

A rare photo of Babe Ruth from 1915 sold at auction Sunday night for $39,000, according to a news release. The final price tag on the print, which pictured Ruth and his father, George Herman Ruth ...

George Herman Ruth, 51, and William Robert Pilkey, 63, were inmates at the federal prison at Fort Dix when they hatched and carried out a plan to soak the Internal Revenue Service for $360,000 in ...

It was a cool, cloudy afternoon on Oct. 17, 1914, as George Herman Ruth and his bride-to-be stepped off the train in Ellicott City, climbed the steep hill to St. Paul’s Catholic Church and tied ...