Babe Ruth (George Herman Ruth) was an American baseball player. He was born in 1895 and died in 1948. He started his career as a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, but is best known for his batting, regularly driving balls out of the park, and in 1919 set a home run record of 29 which he broke in 1920 with 54 when playing for the New York Yankees. In 1927 he set another season record of 60 home runs. By the time he retired in 1935 he had set a record of 714 home runs, which stood until it was beaten in 1974 by Hank Aaron. Research Babe Ruth
Henry Louis Aaron (Hank Aaron) is an American baseball player. He was born in 1934 at Mobile, Alabama. An outstanding batsman, during his twenty-three season career with the Milwaukee, later Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers he made 755 home runs, breaking Babe Ruth's long standing record of 714 home runs. Research Hank Aaron
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