Babe Ruth's contributions to baseball have never been officially acknowledged.
Ruth established many MLB batting -LRB- and some pitching -RRB- records , including career home runs -LRB- 714 -RRB- , runs batted in -LRB- RBIs -RRB- -LRB- 2,213 -RRB- , bases on balls -LRB- 2,062 -RRB- , slugging percentage -LRB- .6897 -RRB- , and on-base plus slugging -LRB- OPS -RRB- -LRB- 1.164 -RRB- ; the latter two still stand today .	runs batted in	runs batted in	bases on balls	bases on balls	slugging percentage	slugging percentage	on-base plus slugging	on-base plus slugging
