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Babe Ruth
Early Life
• George Herman Ruth Jr., born February 6th, 1895
• Grew up in Baltimore, Maryland• Had 7 brothers and sisters, only one
lived past infancy• Mom died when he was a teenager
(tuberculosis)
St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys
• Sent there when he was seven years old by his father
• Lived there for the next twelve years, until he was signed to his first minor league team
• Discovered baseball and started to play for the school league as a pitcher
Getting Signed
• Jack Dunn went to a championship interschool game and saw Ruth pitch, signed him when he was 19
• Played for the (then minor league) Baltimore Orioles
• Played in the minors for only 5 months then got traded to the Red Sox
Life in the Majors• Sold to the
Red Sox on July 7, 1914 and played his first ML game 4 days later
• Starting in 1918, he began to hit and field more and pitch less•Won 3
World Series with the Red Sox
The Yankee Years
• Sold to the Yankees December 26, 1919, and would play for them for almost the rest of his career
• Won 4 World Series while on the team• Set most of his records while with the Yankees
Last Few Years in Baseball
• Sold to the Boston Braves February 26th, 1935
• Was VP and assistant manager• Retired from baseball at the end of the
season
The End of the Babe
• Discovered he had a rare cancer in his neck in 1946
• Got slightly better for a while, but the cancer reappeared in 1948
• Died August 16th, 1948 of pneumonia caused by his cancer
Random Facts
• 714 career HRs, record until broken in 1974 by Hank Aaron
• Total hits: 2,873• Voted Athlete of the Century by the Associated Press• One of first five players elected into
the Hall of Fame in 1936
• Babe Ruth knocked himself out in a game against the Washington Senators when he ran into a wall.