When Babe stopped playing, the new king of paychecks was Gehrig, who was making $30,000. Nevertheless, Ruth's salaries, as gargantuan as his home runs, helped jack up major-league wages across the ...

To this day, Babe Ruth is one of the most-famous baseball players in the world. If you ask a random person to name five baseball players, there’s a good chance that Ruth will get mentioned.