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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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").

It was not until 1919 that the Red Sox finally realized Babe's true greatness when they let him play everyday, left field mostly. In this season he hit twenty-nine home runs, most ever hit by a player in a year at this time. This year he also led the league in runs batted in, runs scored, slugging average, and total bases. A few years earlier the team was sold to a hard-drinking and theatrical producer, H. Harrison Frazee, who cared more about theater that about his baseball team. And a year that Red Sox fans will never forget, 1920, Frazee sold Ruth to the New York Yankees for $125,000 and a $300,000 loan to help finance on of Frazee's Broadway ventures ("life & career" 2). This was the start of the "Curse of the Bambino." The Red Sox have not won a World Series since 1918.

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In the spring of 1925 his life seemed to begin to crumble. He was overweight, drunk, and he was bewildered by his marriage falling apart. On April 9, he collapsed from a mysterious illness that required abdominal surgery and seven weeks in the hospital. The illness was suspected to be venereal disease, but the newspapers reported that it was because he eat to many hot dogs and drank to many sodas. It was referred to as "the bellyache heard round the world. (Altman 3)." His marriage shortly ended by separation instead of divorce since Helen was Catholic. She was tired of his womanizing and his drinking habits. His baseball career seemed to be falling to the wasteside but in 1927, it all came together. He was pushed by his teammate Lou Gehrig to succeed and that he did. Babe led the team to 110 wins and set a remarkable record never to be forgotten. Babe hit 60 home runs, a remarkable feat unthinkable at the time. He led the Yankees to back to back World Series victor!

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. The stadium seated 62,000 but on opening day 74,000 showed up on opening day. 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. From there on the stadium was known as "the house that Babe built."

In 1934 Ruth also hit the first ever home run in an all-star game. It was his 20th season and he rarely finished a game but he still hit thirty-four home runs. After the 1934 season he toured with an all-star team touring Japan.

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