Biography george herman ruth

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Who Was Babe Ruth?

Over the course of his career, Babe Ruth went on to break baseball's most important slugging records, including most years leading a league in home runs, most total bases in a season, and highest slugging percentage for a season.

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In all, Ruth hit home runs—a mark that stood until

Early Life

Ruth was born George Herman Ruth Jr. on February 6, , in Baltimore, Maryland. Ruth was raised in a poor waterfront neighborhood in Baltimore, where his parents, Kate Schamberger-Ruth and George Herman Ruth Sr., owned a tavern. Ruth was one of eight children born to the couple, and one of only two that survived infancy.

At the age of 7, the trouble-making Ruth became too much of a handful for his busy parents.

Routinely caught wandering the dockyards, drinking, chewing tobacco and taunting local police officers, his parents finally decided he needed more discipline than they could give him. Ruth's family sent him to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, biography george herman ruth3 DAHE