Babe Ruth

Sobre Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth são uma banda de rock inglesa de Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Inglaterra. Eles foram ativos nos anos 1970 e depois se reformaram em 2002.

Inception: 1971
Website: http://www.baberuthband.com

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Babe Ruth são uma banda de rock inglesa de Hatfield, Hertfordshire, Inglaterra. Eles foram inicialmente ativos nos anos 1970 e se reformaram em 2005. História Um predecessor do grupo, chamado Shacklock em homenagem ao guitarrista Alan Shacklock, foi formado em 1970. Os membros incluíam Janita Haan e Dave Hewitt, com Dave Punshon e Dick Powell juntando-se depois. O primeiro lançamento foi o single "Wells Fargo"; seu primeiro álbum, First Base, tornou-se disco de ouro no Canadá. Em 1973, Ed Spevock substituiu Powell e Chris Holmes substituiu Punshon no segundo álbum. Em 1975, Steve Gurl, tecladista de Wild Turkey de Glenn Cornick, substituiu Holmes no terceiro álbum. No mesmo ano, Shacklock deixou a banda para se tornar produtor musical e Bernie Marsden (Wild Turkey) juntou-se à equipe para o quarto álbum. Depois disso, Haan e Hewitt saíram. Embora nenhum membro original tenha permanecido, o grupo incorporou Ellie Hope e Ray Knott para o quinto álbum em 1976. Pouco antes de Babe Ruth se dissolver, juntou-se a eles o jovem Simon Lambeth, de 17 anos, nascido em Birmingham, que fez algumas aparições na última turnê. Marsden foi para o Whitesnake (depois que o Paice Ashton Lord, de curta duração, se desfez) e Lambeth deixou a banda. O single de 1975 "Elusive" tornou-se uma música popular na cena northern soul. Nos EUA, "Elusive" também foi um sucesso nas discotecas, alcançando a posição #12 na National Disco Action chart.

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Notable quotes

“I always swing at the ball with all my might. I hit or miss big and when I miss I know it long before the umpire calls a strike on me, for every muscle in my back, shoulders and arms is groaning, "You missed it." And believe me, it is no fun to miss a ball that hard. Once I put myself out of the game for a few days by a miss like that.”
— From "'Keep Your Eye On the Ball'; No, Not Golf, It's Babe Ruth," by Ruth (as told to Pegler), in The Chicago Tribune (August 13, 1920), p. 11; reprinted as "How to Hit Home Runs," in Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball, p. 29
“Say, if I hadn't been sick last summer, I'd have broken hell out of that home run record! Besides, the President gets a four-year contract. I'm only asking for three. ✱”
— Speaking on January 7, 1930, when asked what made him think he was "worth more than the President of the United States," as quoted in "Yanks Refuse Ruth's Demand For $100,000; Star Asks That Figure On 3-Year Contract or $85,000 and No Exhibitions" by Richards Vidmer, in The New York Herald Tribune (January 8, 1930); also quoted in part—i.e. "The President gets a four-year contract; I'm only asking for three"—later that month in a syndicated story by NEA sportswriter Claire Burcky. ✱ Immediately following is the virtually ubiquitous but almost certainly apocryphal "I had a better year..." variation; in addition, see related contemporaneous quotes from Brian Bell, Herbert Hoover, Albert Keane, Reuters and Will Rogers in Quotes about Ruth.
“You can bother me to autograph anything you want. When you quit bothering me to sign autographs, then I'll know I'm through. Slip me the old apple and a pen. And tell 'em to keep on bothering me.”
— Speaking to autograph seeker, as quoted in "'Never Happier in My Life' Ruth Tells Grantland Rice..."
“I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.”
— Revisiting the May 1922 dirt-throwing, fan-chasing incident, in The Babe Ruth Story; reproduced in "Babe Ruth Quotes" at Baseball Almanac
“If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.”
— As quoted in Baseball as I Have Known It (1977) by Fred Lieb, p. 154
“I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter.”
— On Shoeless Joe Jackson, as quoted in Joe Jackson: A Biography (2004) by Kelly Boyer Sagert

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