Babe Ruth

Net Worth

$800,000

Born in (City)

Baltimore, Maryland

Born in (Country)

United states

Date of Birth

06th December, 1895

Date of Death

16th December, 1948

Mother

Kate Schamberger-Ruth

Father

George Herman Ruth Sr

Children

Dorothy
Julia

About

George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr. was an American professional baseball player. Nicknamed "The Bambino" and "The Sultan of Swat", he began his MLB career as a star left-handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox but achieved his greatest fame as a slugging outfielder for the New York Yankees. Ruth showed exceptional skill both as a strong hitter and pitcher. At the age of only 19, he joined the Red Sox team. The law at the time stated that Ruth had to have a legal guardian sign his baseball contract for him to play professionally. As a result, he got the name "Dunn’s new babe". Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. In 1936, Ruth was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame as one of its "first five" inaugural members.

Early Life

Babe Ruth was born on February 6 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland. Ruth was raised in a poor waterfront neighbourhood 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. Many details of Ruth’s childhood are unknown, including the date of his parent’s marriage. As a child, Ruth spoke German. When Ruth was a toddler, the family moved to 339 South Wood year Street, not far from the rail yards. By the time he was six years old, his father had a saloon with an upstairs apartment at 426 West Camden Street. Details are equally scanty about why Ruth was sent at the age of seven to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, which was a reformatory and orphanage. However, according to Julia Ruth Steven’s recount in 1999, because George Sr. was a saloon owner in Baltimore and had given Ruth little supervision growing up, he became a delinquent. Ruth was sent to St. Mary’s because George Sr. ran out of ideas to discipline and mentor his son. Ruth entered St. Mary’s on June 13, 1902. He was recorded as "incorrigible" and spent much of the next 12 years there. Ruth became a shirtmaker and was also proficient as a carpenter. He would adjust his shirt collars, rather than having a tailor do so, even during his well-paid baseball career. The boys, aged 5 to 21, did most of the work around the facility, from cooking to shoemaking, and renovated St. Mary’s in 1912. Ruth’s nickname there was "Niggerlips", as he had large facial features and was darker than most boys at the all-white reformatory.

Road to Success

Mathias, along with several other monks, introduced Ruth to baseball, a game at which the boy excelled. By the time he was 15, Ruth showed exceptional skill both as a strong hitter and pitcher. It was his pitching that initially caught the attention of Jack Dunn, the owner of the minor league Baltimore Orioles. Ruth quickly earned the nickname "Babe" Ruth. Ruth was only with the club for a short time before he was called up to the majors in Boston. The left-handed pitcher proved immediately to be a valuable member of the team. Over the next five years, Ruth led the Red Sox to three championships, including the 1916 title which saw him pitch a still-record 13 scoreless winnings in one game. With its titles and "the Babe," Boston was the class act of the major leagues. All that would change in 1919 with a single stroke of a pen. Faced with financial hardships, Red Sox owner Harry Frazee needed cash to pay off his debts. He found help in the New York Yankees, which agreed in December 1919 to buy the rights to Ruth for the then-impressive sum of $100,000. The deal came to shape both franchises in unforeseen ways. For Boston, Ruth’s departure spelled the end of the team’s winning streak. In 1919, while with the Red Sox, Ruth set a single-season home run record of 29. This turned out to be just the beginning of a series of record-breaking performances by Ruth. In 1920, his first year in New York, he knocked 54 home runs. In his second season, he broke his record by hitting 59 home runs and, in less than 10 seasons, Ruth had made his mark as baseball’s all-time home run leader.

Challenges

Ruth was one of eight children born to his parents, and one of only two that survived infancy. Ruth was sent to St. Mary\’s because George Sr. ran out of ideas to discipline and mentor his son. As an adult, Ruth admitted that as a youth he had been running the streets and rarely attending school, as well as drinking beer when his father was not looking. Ruth entered St. Mary’s on June 13, 1902. He was recorded as "incorrigible" and spent much of the next 12 years there. Ruth became a shirtmaker and was also proficient as a carpenter. He would adjust his shirt collars rather than having a tailor do so, even during his well-paid baseball career. In 1946, Ruth began experiencing severe pain over his left eye and had difficulty swallowing. In November 1946, Ruth entered French Hospital in New York for tests, which revealed that he had an inoperable malignant tumor at the base of his skull and in his neck. The malady was a lesion known as nasopharyngeal carcinoma or lymphoepithelioma. on August 16, 1948, Ruth died, leaving much of his estate to the Babe Ruth Foundation for underprivileged children.

Failures

Ruth’s success on the field was matched by a lifestyle that catered perfectly to a pre-Depression America hungry for a fast lifestyle. Rumors of his large appetite for food, alcohol, and women, as well as his tendency toward extravagant spending and high living, were as legendary as his exploits at the plate. This reputation, whether true or imagined, hurt Ruth’s chances of becoming a team manager in later life. Ball clubs, wary of his lifestyle, didn’t want to take a chance on the seemingly irresponsible Ruth. In 1935 he was lured back to Boston to play for the Braves and the opportunity, so he thought, to manage the club the following season. The job never materialized. After his last game on May 25, 1935, the following week Ruth officially retired. He was one of the first five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.

Achievements

Ruth was one of the first five players inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.|7 times World Series champion|12 times AL home run leader|6 times AL RBI leader|Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame|Record Carrer slugging percentage of .690 and on-base plus slugging (OPS) of 1.164 till 2019

Quotes

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
The only real game, I think, in the world is baseball