The Babe performed well for Dunn and the Orioles, leading to the sale of Babe to the Boston Red Sox by Dunn. It's campy and the story is ridiculous at times but this is a movie I hate to love. While Babe is most known for his prodigious power as a slugger, he started his career as a pitcher, and a very good one at that. With Stephen Lang, Brian Doyle-Murray, Donald Moffat, Yvonne Suhor. Directed by Mark Tinker. On the Johnny Sylvester Story. Babe Ruth's feats at the plate, of course, were only half the story. His escapades off the field were at least as sensational and amazing. A film based on the home-run legend's life. The problem is his script was written to appeal to kids by making the Babe larger than he was in real life. Charlie Poekel, author of Babe & the Kid: The Legendary Story of Babe Ruth and Johnny Sylvester: Pretty much everything is wrong with this movie as far as the Johnny Sylvester story goes, which they don’t have to do because the accurate facts are just as impressive as they are in the movie. You know he was a legendary home run hitter, but Ruth's story transcends stats and status. Ruth, who died in 1948 at 53, held on to the single-season home run record until Roger Maris of the Yankees hit 61 in 1961. By 1921, Babe Ruth was a household name while “Baby Ruth,” who died 17 years beforehand, was an historical footnote. The Babe’s granddaughter, Linda Ruth Tosetti, declined to comment. William Bendix does his best to play Babe Ruth and he looks good. Thereafter, George Herman Ruth Jr. was known as the Babe. Shortly after his arrival in New York to play for the Yankees in 1920, Babe moved his wife Helen down from Boston, and the couple took up residence in a sumptuous suite within the elegant Astoria Hotel on Broadway. Hitting a dog with a baseball and hitting a home run for Johnny is played to the gut and meant to draw tears. This is the untold truth of Babe Ruth.