Babe Ruth

In May 1918 manager Ed Barrow, after talking with captain Harry Hooper, began playing Ruth in the field as well as pitching him. From mid-July to early September Ruth pitched every fourth day and played left field, center field or first base on the other days, and Boston won the American League pennant and then the World Series against the Cubs.

Ruth was on seven World Series champions: the Red Sox in 1915, 1916 and 1918, and the Yankees in 1923, 1927, 1928 and 1932. He was also on the losing side of three Series with New York, in 1921, 1922 and 1926.

After the 1921 World Series, Ruth, Bob Meusel and Bill Piercy began an exhibition tour in Buffalo on 16 October despite a rule barring World Series players from barnstorming. Ruth had phoned Commissioner Landis beforehand and told reporters afterwards that he knew what the tour might mean for him. He ended the tour on 21-22 October after talking with Yankees co-owner Til Huston, and on 5 December Landis suspended Ruth and Meusel until 20 May 1922 and ordered them to return their World Series shares (SABR's T.S. Flynn, drawing on 1921 newspaper reports).

Going ahead after speaking to the commissioner, then stopping after talks with an owner, offers one example of the profile's conflict-tolerance score, with a yielding side as well as a defiant one. Conflict Tolerance

On 27 August 1925 Ruth ignored a bunt sign from manager Miller Huggins and hit into a double play. Two days later in St. Louis, after missing curfew and arriving late for batting practice, he was fined and suspended by Huggins; Ruth shouted at him and said he would go to owner Jacob Ruppert, who backed the manager, and Steinberg has Ruth apologise and return to the lineup in Boston. Teammate Waite Hoyt, who says he was the only other person in the clubhouse, gives a similar account of the confrontation itself.

Missing curfew and ignoring a sign sit alongside the profile's below-midpoint self-discipline score, but the record is mixed: Steinberg reads the suspension as a change in Ruth's relationship with Huggins, and Wood records a six-week conditioning regimen before the 1926 season. Discipline

After leaving the Yankees, Ruth joined the Boston Braves in 1935 as a player with the titles of vice-president and assistant manager, hoping to be named manager if Bill McKechnie left (Brown). He played 28 games (Wood), then quit in early June after a dispute with owner Emil Fuchs and told reporters on 4 June that he was finished with the club (Brown). McMurray, following Montville, calls Fuchs's promises of a managing opportunity misleading, and no major-league managing job ever followed.

Years of lobbying for a managing job, and of accepting posts that might lead to one, is consistent with the profile's leadership-drive score; McMurray adds that he refused the minor-league route, and much of the detail descends from Montville's biography, so this is one reading rather than a settled account of his motives. Leadership Drive