Babe Ruth was And remains the most popular player in baseball history. His batting feet’s are the standards by which all other home run headers are judged and his flamboyance set the pace of the Americans roaring 20s era following the black Sox scandal involving the 1919 World Series one baseball urgently needed a magnificent personality to restore public confidence in the game, babes, explosive bat set the game soaring to unprecedented popularity originally a pitcher , babe won 94 games while losing only 48 income pile a World Series streak of 29.2 consecutive score listenings a record that stood for 44 years