babe ruth

Babe Ruth considered by many of the greatest if not the greatest baseball players of all time, and yet Babe was one of the most infamous players of all time. Babe Ruth conquered many feats on and off the field. Babe also led a life of free will and ill judgment.

George Herman Ruth Jr. born February 6, 1895. First of eight children by his mother Kate Schamberger Ruth, but one of only two of which to lived to a full life. It’s a myth that George Ruth Jr. was an orphan, he was not an orphan he lived with his parents for the first seven years of his life before he was sent to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys. As if this was not bad enough his father, George Ruth, signed custody of George Jr. over to the Xaverian Brothers which were a Catholic Order of Jesuit Missionaries who ran St. Mary’s (Beim 1).

The school was similar to a prison with a wall surrounding the school and guards on duty making sure no one “escapes.” George Jr. was classified as “incorrigible” and sent home many times just to be sent back to school by his parents who never came to visit him. The one positive thing that came out of St. Mary’s was encountering Brother Mathias, the main disciplinarian at St. Mary’s. Brother Mathias and George

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At Ruth’s first at bat in the new stadium he pounded a ball over right field to be the first player to hit a home run in the stadium. And was one of the first ever patients to receive chemotherapy (Altman 1). Ruth pitched in two World Series with the Sox. All living members from the 1923 team were there to celebrate the day. This was the start of the “Curse of the Bambino. ” His marriage shortly ended by separation instead of divorce since Helen was Catholic. In the 1932 World Series the fans dispited Ruth.

In 1923 a new stadium was built in the Bronx to hold the tens of thousands who showed up every game to see the Babe. This year he also led the league in runs batted in, runs scored, slugging average, and total bases. , August 16, 1948, he was only fifty-three years old (“life & career”).

But in 1922 all of his bad habits began to catch up to him and his life outside of baseball, being and alcoholic and womanizer began to catch up to him.

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