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Denton True "Cy" Young (March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955)

Born in Gilmore, Ohio, Cy Young was a pioneering baseball
pitcher who won a record 511 major league games from
1890-1911. Namesake of MLB’s annual award for best
pitcher.

George Herman "Babe" Ruth (February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948)

Babe Ruth was a  professional baseball player whose career
in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914
through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan of
Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher
for the Boston Red Sox, but achieved his greatest fame as a
slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees.

Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in
American culture and is considered by many to be the
greatest baseball player of all time.

In 1936, Ruth was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame
as one of its "first five" members.

1948

Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021)

On February 5, 1934, Henry Louis Aaron Jr., the baseball
slugger who broke Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714
homers, was born in Mobile, Alabama.

Aaron began his professional baseball career in 1952 in
the Negro League and joined the Milwaukee Braves of
the major league in 1954, eight years after Jackie
Robinson had integrated baseball.

The following season, he took home the league’s MVP
award and helped the Braves beat Mickey Mantle and
the heavily favored New York Yankees in the World
Series. In 1959, Aaron won his second league batting
title.