Babe Ruth

By: Elizabeth Shepherd & Reina Torrez-Miner

Birth Information

• Born on February 6,1895 in Baltimore, Maryland

• Real name is George Herman Ruth

Personal Background

• One of eight children• Only Babe and his sister

Mamie survived the other six passed away

• When he was seven years old his parents sent him away to St, Mary’s Industrial school for boys because he became a troublemaker to the neighborhood and they were never there to make him mind

• Before he was found as a major league baseball player he worked for Baltimore Orioles

• Babe was founded by his boss Jack Dunn

• When Babe was 19 years old Jack Dunn became his legal guardian

• After the Baltimore Orioles Babe went and played with the Boston Red Sox

Field Of Work• Major League Baseball player• Played for the New York

Yankees • Before Babe played for the

Yankees the Yankees had never had a title until Babe came

• Babe helped the Yankees by seven pennants and had gotten them 4 World Series Titles

• Babe was important during the 1920’s because he gave people something to look forward to and gave people a new light of things to look at

Photographs

Babe With one of his fans

One of Babe’s games playing for the Yankees

Personal

• Babe’s first season playing for Boston he fell in love with a waitress named Helen and later married her

• Babe had some pretty serious scandals during his baseball career such as staying out late ignoring the team’s curfew and he loved to drink and he slept with a large amount of women and crashed his car a couple of times

Apperance

After a Yankees gameWatching a Yankees game

Important Little Facts

• Babe’s Yankees jersey sold for $4.4million dollars

• 714 home runs• Voted Athlete of the century by the Associated

press• 7 time World Series

Champion(1915,1916,1918,1923,1927, 1928,1993)

• Elected in 1936 for the Hall of Fame receiving 95.13% of the votes

Death Information

• In 1946 it was discovered that Babe had malignant tumor in his neck

• On August 16,1948 the cancer took over him and he passed away at age 53

• His body laid in Yankee Stadium the funeral was two days later and over 100,000 people lined up and paid their respects

Famous Quotes

• “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way”

• “It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up”

Works Citied

• Family of Babe Ruth & Babe Ruth League. “Babe Ruth” Babe Ruth. 2011. December 10, 2012 http://www.baberuth.com/

• Jennifer Rosenberg. “20th Century History” Babe Ruth. 2012. December 10, 2012 http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/p/baberuth.htm

• Caso,F “Ruth. Babe” Notable Sports Figures. 2004. encyclopedia. COM December 10, 2012 http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Babe_Ruth.aspx