Babe Ruth played 22 seasons (1914–1935) for BOS, NYY and ATL. Career regular-season line: 2,873 hits, 714 home runs and a .342 average. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1921. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1936. Honors: 2× All-Star Selections and 1× MVP Awards.
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Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
20 seasons · peak 34.4 in 1921 · league-best seasons: 1920, 1921, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1928
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
155.8 career wins over 20 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1921 · +13.2 wins
Latest season · 1934 · +3.9 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Babe Ruth led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1921, 20 rated seasons.
Where Babe Ruth ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
Ranked against the single greatest era-translated seasons in every sport by z — robust standard deviations above Babe Ruth's own era's positional peers, the one dominance measure comparable across the NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB.
The season chip above measures Babe Ruth's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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Career boards only, within MLB
+ 4 more career boards inside the all-time top 100.
On the MLB Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.
Cross-sport prominence: 100.0th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
Franchise face
Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 22 seasons (1914–1935) — a true nomad. The crest trail:
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleMLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsMLB Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every TeamMLB Greatest Single Seasons by VAL (Hitters and Pitchers)MLB Hall of Very Good — Great Careers on Cooperstown's DoorstepMLB JourneymenMLB League Leader Marks — Most League-Leading SeasonsMLB Loyalty
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.