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Born
He was born Febuary 6th 1895. -
Name
His real name was George Herman Ruth, his father was George Herman Ruth too. -
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childhood
George was a very troubled kid, and his parents decided to send him to ST.Mary idustrial school for boys which was in baltimore -
8 years
By th time George was 8 he had already been drinking and eating tobbaco which made his parents send him too live at ST. Mary industrial school for boys ( a catholic reform school -
shirts
each kid was supposed to pick a career and pursue it George had picked shirt making -
Oriols
Babe Ruth was still living in St. Mary school when he signed with the oriols. -
First homerun
Babe had hit his first homerun during a interleague game while he played shortstop -
Sold
Later that summer the oriols sold Babe ruth to the red sox for cash -
first game
Babe Ruth had his first apperence as a red sox atually as a pitcher. he ended up going 0-2 at the plate that game. -
Married
Babe had got married to 16 year old Helen Woodford -
first major league homerun
Babe ruth had hit his first major league homerun while playing first base and not pitcher -
League leader
Babe ruth had led the league in era with a 1.75 and led the league in wins with 23 -
3 word series
In a span of 3 years 1917,1918 and 1819 Babe had won 3 world series with the red sox but he rarley played -
first ever
Babe ruth was the first player ever to leade the league in pitching and hitting -
yankess
Babe ruth was traded from the redsox tot he yankees for cash and that trade is known as " the curse of the bambino" -
homerun champ
Babe ruth 3 years in a row had set the homerun record with over 52 each year the previous record was 27 -
retirement
Babe ruth had retired with 575 career homeruns. -
Babe ruth deaths
Babe ruth had died of throat cancer. his body had laid at yankess stadium for two days
