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Biography- Babe Ruth, born George Herman Ruth was born in 1895 in Baltimore to Kate and George Ruth. His parents were saloon - keepers who quickly found that George was too much for them too handle. So at the age of seven George was sent to a Catholic school for boys. It was at that Catholic boy’s school that Ruth found his love for baseball. Ruth started his career at the age of 18 with the Baltimore Orioles’ in the spring of 1914 as a pitcher. However, midway through the year he was sold to the Boston Red Sox.
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Ruth appeared in five games for the Red Sox in 1914, pitching in four of them. He picked up the victory in his Major League debut on July 11; ironically, Duffy Lewis scored the winning run after pinch-hitting for Ruth. The Red Sox had many star players in 1914, so Ruth was soon optioned to the minor league Providence Grays of Providence, Rhode Island for most of the remaining season. Behind Ruth and Carl Mays, the Grays won the International League pennant.
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While with the Red Sox, Ruth married 18-year-old waitress Helen Woodford, whom he had known less than three months. In 1929, Ruth’s wife died in a fire. At the time, they had been separated for three years. Her tragic death allowed him to marry Claire Hodgson, a former model and actress. With Claire’s daughter from a previous marriage and Ruth’s adopted daughter (with Woodford), they became an immediate family. Ruth and Hodgson remained together until Ruth’s death.
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It was Ruth’s hitting... that attracted the attention of the team’s management and fans. Beginning in 1918, the Red Sox played Ruth more often as an outfielder to take advantage of his hitting skills. That season he led the AL with 11 home runs. In 1919 he pitched in only 17 games. Playing regularly in the outfield, he captured the home run title again with 29 roundtrippers. This set a new season record.
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On July 7, 1914, Dunn offered Ruth, along with Ernie Shore and Ben Egan, to Connie Mack of the Philadelphia Athletics. Dunn asked $10,000 for the trio, but Mack refused the offer. The Cincinnati Reds, who had an agreement with the Orioles... passed on Ruth. Instead, the team elected to take George Twombley and Claud Derrick.[8]
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That might not have happened had Ruth not insisted on becoming an everyday hitter. He had offered early signs of his talent by winning 23 games in 1916, and another 24 in 1917, as a young pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. But he soared into another realm in the '20s after the Red Sox infamously sold him to the New York Yankees and Ruth began smacking home runs at, well, a Ruthian rate.
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