The Sultan of Swat wasn’t always known as a slugger

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🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Before becoming a legendary big hitter, Babe Ruth was one of baseball’s best from the mound.

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0:00.0	Hey, history lovers. I'm Mike Rosenwald with RetroPod.
0:03.5	A show about the past. Rediscovered.
0:11.0	The World Series gets underway this week at one of the most hallowed places in all of sports.
0:19.0	Fenway Park.
0:24.0	So may... in all of sports. Fenway Park. So many baseball legends have called this place home since 1912.
0:29.6	Smokey Joe Wood,
0:31.1	Sa Young, Jimmy Fox,
0:33.1	Carl Yostremski, Ted Williams.
0:36.3	But there's one name that was perhaps the greatest of them all,
0:41.2	Babe Ruth, the great Bambino, the Sultan of Swat. Most fans remember Ruth in Yankee
0:51.0	pinstripes. He was sold to New York following his first six seasons in Boston. As a Yankee pinstripes. He was sold to New York following his first six seasons
0:55.5	in Boston.
0:57.1	As a Yankee,
0:58.6	he hit towering,
1:00.6	awe-inspiring moon shots.
1:02.3	He can't get it.
1:03.2	It's in there.
1:04.4	Another home run for the band game on.
1:25.5	The Sultan of SWAT hit so many Major League home runs, 714, that it's hard to remember his career in Boston started in a very different way.
1:33.0	As a pitcher, and not just any old pitcher either, he was one of the game's greats on the mound,
1:36.0	a lefty who was nearly unhittable.
1:40.4	In a World Series, he never lost a game on the mound.
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