Babe Ruth: Difference between revisions

Creamer describes Ruth as "a unique figure in the social history of the United States".<ref name = "c16" /> Thomas Barthel describes him as one of the first [[celebrity]] athletes; numerous biographies have portrayed him as "larger than life".<ref>{{cite book |last=Barthel |first=Thomas |title=Babe Ruth and the Creation of the Celebrity Athlete |date=2018 |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson, N.C. |isbn=978-1-47-666532-0 |pages=1–2 |url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Babe_Ruth_and_the_Creation_of_the_Celebr.html?id=Ia9mDwAAQBAJ&q=%22larger+than+life%22 |ref=harv |access-date=August 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190820080614/https://books.google.com/books/about/Babe_Ruth_and_the_Creation_of_the_Celebr.html%3Fid%3DIa9mDwAAQBAJ%26q%3D%2522larger%2Bthan%2Blife%2522 |archive-date=August 20, 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> He was the first athlete to make more money from endorsements and other off-the-field activities than from his sport.{{r|menand20200525}} He entered the language: a dominant figure in a field, whether within or outside sports, is often referred to as "the Babe Ruth" of that field.<ref name="c16" /> Similarly, "Ruthian" has come to mean in sports, "colossal, dramatic, prodigious, magnificent; with great power".<ref>{{cite book|title=The Dickson Baseball Dictionary|edition=3rd|first=Paul|last=Dickson|page=731|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ceeU7xSLw5kC&lpg=PA373&dq=ruthian%20definition&pg=PA731#v=onepage&q=ruthian|publisher=W.W. Norton & Co.|location=New York|isbn=978-0-393-07349-2|year=2011|access-date=November 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529012621/https://books.google.com/books?id=ceeU7xSLw5kC&lpg=PA373&dq=ruthian%20definition&pg=PA731#v=onepage&q=ruthian|archive-date=May 29, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> He was the first athlete to make more money from endorsements and other off-the-field activities than from his sport.{{r|menand20200525}}