Babe Ruth

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BABE RUTH Table of Contents1------------------------------Childhood2------------------------------Childhood3------------------------------Minor League4------------------------------Major League Games5------------------------------Red Sox/Home Run Records6------------------------------Helen Woodford7------------------------------The Great Bambino8------------------------------Desire to Manage in the Big Leagues9------------------------------Movie of His Life10----------------------------Babe’s Death1George Herman Ruth, Jr. was born on Februrary 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland. His parents were Kate Schamberger-Ruth and George Herman Ruth, Sr., who tended bar and eventually owned his own tavern near the Baltimore waterfront. The Ruth’s had a total of eight children, but only two survived: a daughter named Mamie and a son named George, Jr. the boy who would grow up to be an American hero. George, Jr. did not have a happy childhood. His parents worked long hours in the tavern, leaving their son to take care of himself much of the ...

... allowed to see him, one of whom was then National League President and future Commissioner of Baseball, Ford Frick. Ruth was so thin it was unbelievable. He had been such a big man. Now his arms were just skinny little bones, and his face was 10so haggard, Frick said years later. On August 16, 1948, the day after Frick's visit, Babe Ruth died at the age of 53. His body lay in repose in Yankee Stadium. While lying in state at the entrance of Yankee Stadium on August 17th and 18th, more than 100,000 people came by to pay their respects. His funeral was two days later at St. Patrick's Cathedral in

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