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 Jr. became very close and Brother Mathias became the father figure George Jr. never came to know. Brother Mathias helped George Jr. develop as a baseball player ("life & career").
             By George Jr.'s late teens he was considered to be a major league prospect. And on February 27, 1914 Jack Dunn, the manager, signed him to a major league contract with the Baltimore Orioles, a minor league franchise in the International league. Jack Dunn was known for picking up youngsters who he thought had major league potential and giving them the opportunity to play. When Dunn brought George Jr. to practice, the players began cracking jokes "well, here's Jack newest Babe. (Biem 1)." And ever since then the name stuck with him a...