To this day, Babe Ruth is one of the most-famous baseball players in the world. If you ask a random person to name five baseball players, there’s a good chance that Ruth will get mentioned.

He was a worldwide celebrity, an international star, the likes of which baseball has never seen since," says broadcaster Ernie Harwell about Babe Ruth on ESPN's SportsCentury show. Sept.

This year marks 100 years since the slugger came to St. Petersburg for spring training with the Yankees in 1925.