Babe Ruth Leaves BaseballBabe Ruth's farewell speech to baseball. His voice is raspy because he has throat cancer, it later killed him.
George Herman Ruth, Jr. (February 6, 1895 -- August 16, 1948), also popularly known as "Babe", "The Bambino", and "The Sultan of Swat", was an American Major League baseball player from 1914 to 1935. Named the greatest baseball player in history in various surveys and rankings, his home run hitting prowess and charismatic personality made him a larger than life figure in the "Roaring Twenties".