George Herman Ruth, Jr. was born on February 6, 1895 on Emory Street in southern Baltimore, Maryland.  Ruth’s parents could not take care of him because they had to work long and hard days.  When George was seven years old he went to an orphanage.  He stayed at St. Mary’s Industrial School for boys for 12 more years and his parents almost never visited the school.  A man at St. Mary’s named Brother Matthias taught George how to play baseball.  He threw with his left hand and batted left but wrote right handed.  In early 1914 a teacher brought Ruth to Jack Dunn.  Jack was the manager of the minor league Baltimore Orioles.  After he saw Ruth pitch he made a contract with him.  He was 19 when he first played with the Orioles.  He got the nickname from the Baltimore Orioles team players they said to him that he was “Jack’s newest babe” and it stayed with him his whole life. 

On July 9, 1914 Dunn sold Ruth to Joe Lannin and the Boston Red Sox.  Babe met his first wife Helen at a café and later that year he married Helen. Babe’s baseball career was from 1914-1935.  Babe Ruth started his career as a Boston Red Sox pitcher. He made an 89-46 win-loss and several world championship records. In 1920 he got sold to the Yankees and his famous baseball career started.  He was commonly known as “The Bambino”, “The Sultan of Swat”, and of course “Babe.”  He helped the Yankees get out of the doldrums and get them to a world force.  In the first two seasons he hit over a hundred homers.  In the thirteen years he was at the club he helped them win seven pennants and four world championships.  Babe and Helen adopted Dorothy and Julia in 1921.  Now they were a true family.  Sadly his first wife Helen died in a house fire in 1929.  In 1934 it was his last year of playing as a New York Yankee and in 1935 he retired playing for the Boston Braves.  (They changed the name of the Boston Red Sox to the Boston Braves for a year or two.)  At the end of his career he had slugged 714 home runs.   Babe died at the age 53 and died on August 16, 1948.

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