No. Through MLB games played on June 17, 2008 Babe Ruth is 87th on the MLB career strikeout list with 1,330. On the all time single season list, Babe Ruth is not in the MLB top 500. The most strikeouts he had in a season was 93 in 1923. He did lead the American League in strikeouts in 5 seasons (1918, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1928).
Babe Ruth struck out 86 times on average in a 162 game season.
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No. Babe Ruth struck out 1,330 times in his career. Reggie Jackson is the major league leader in strikeouts with 2,597.
Through games played on June 2, 2009 Babe Ruth's 1330 career strikeouts ranks him 89th in MLB history. Current active players that will pass Ruth this season, barring injury, are Ivan Rodriguez (1323 current strikeouts), Adam Dunn (1312), Pat Burrell (1298), and Derrek Lee (1298).
Yes.When Babe Ruth retired in 1935, his 1330 career strikeouts was an MLB record. That record was broken in 1964 by Mickey Mantle.He never held the MLB single season strikeout record. That record, during the length of Ruth's career, was 120 by Gus Williams of the 1914 St. Louis Browns. The most times Ruth struckout in a season was 93 in 1923.
Babe Ruth was, in his lifetime, the most famous baseball player in the world.
The Babe Ruth Award goes to the World Series most valuable player.
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Babe Ruth.
In MLB, that was Babe Ruth who struckout for the 1000th time in the 1930 season. Ruth was the MLB leader in career strikeouts (with 1330) until 1964 when he was surpassed by Mickey Mantle.
Babe Ruth won the 1923 American League MVP Award.
Season: 177 by Babe Ruth in 1921. Career: 1959 by Babe Ruth from 1920-1934.