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With this remarkable success, Ruth's behaviour started to take a turn for the worse. His late-night excesses and partying habits became legendary, and he started getting into regular arguments with umpires. The most famous of these was on June 23, 1917. Ruth opened the game by throwing four straight balls to the first Washington Senators batter he faced. He got into an argument with home plate umpire Brick Owens and was promptly ejected. He then stormed off the mound, while delivering a glancing punch to Owens as he walked past him.
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Ruth's parents worked long hours and had little time to take care of him. When he was seven years old, they sent him to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory and orphanage, and signed custody over to the Catholic missionaries who ran the school. Ruth remained at St. Mary's for the next 12 years, rarely visited by his family. At St. Mary's, a man by the name of Brother Matthias became a father figure in his life. Brother Matthias taught Ruth the game of baseball. He worked with Ruth on hitting, fielding and, later, pitching.[4] Although Ruth batted and threw left-handed, he wrote right-handed.
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More than 70 years after his last game and nearly 60 years after his death, Ruth remains uniquely powerful. A Google search for "Babe Ruth" results in almost 8 million hits. His 1919 contract was auctioned off at Sotheby's last year for $996,000. The adjective "Ruthian," to describe any larger-than-life person or feat, has become an accepted part of the vocabulary.
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Ruth quickly became synonymous with the home run, because he led the transformation of baseball strategy from the "inside game" to the "power game", and because of the style and manner in which he hit them. His ability to drive a significant number of his home runs in the 450–500 foot range and beyond resulted in the lasting adjective "Ruthian," to describe any long home run hit by any player. Probably his deepest hit in official game play (and perhaps the longest home run by any player), occurred on July 18, at Detroit's Navin Field, in which he hit one to straightaway center, over the wall of the then-single-deck bleachers, and to the intersection, some 575 feet from home plate.
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In 10 seasons together, Ruth and Lou Gehrig homered in the same game 72 times, and in the same inning 19 times. The two combined as teammates for 783 homers (434 for Babe, 349 for Lou), the highest total ever, until Henry Aaron and Eddie Mathews… 1919 (4), 1922 (1), 1925 (1), 1926 (1), 1927 (2), 1929 (3), 1930 (1), 1931 (1), 1932 (1), 1934 (1). (16 total) In 1927 he hit a grand slam in consecutive games, September 27th and 28th.
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In spite of that blip on his record, Ruth had another excellent year overall in 1917, ending the year with a 24-13 record and a 2.01 ERA. He recorded 6 shutouts and completed 35 games, a total that has only been exceeded once since, by Bob Feller in 1946.
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