Babe Ruth played baseball.
Babe Ruth . Although Ruth twice won 23 games in a season as a pitcher and was a member of three World Series championship teams with Boston , he wanted to play every day and was allowed to convert to an outfielder . Harry Herbert Frazee ( June 29 , 1880 -- June 4 , 1929 ) was an American theatrical agent , producer and director , and owner of the Major League Baseball Boston Red Sox from 1916 to 1923 . An outfielder is a person playing in one of the three defensive positions in baseball , farthest from the batter . The World Series is the annual championship series of Major League Baseball ( MLB ) in North America , contested since 1903 between the American League ( AL ) champion team and the National League ( NL ) champion team .