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Babe Ruth was born in downtown Baltimore, MD where his father owned a series of saloons. One of them stood in what is now center field at Orioles Park at Camden Yards. With his mother in poor health and his father working long hours at his business, young George was left to run around some of the tougher parts of the city, around the docks and the waterfront streets, and by the age of of six, he was a "pre-juvenile" delinquent. With his parents unable to look after him properly, Ruth was placed in St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys shortly after he turned seven, in what was in effect a Catholic reform school on the outskirts of the city. There he was taken under the wing of one Brother Matthias, a Canadian-born priest who taught him both to read and write, and to play baseball. Ruth spent his entire childhood at the school, playing on its baseball team as he became older.
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Ruth's appearance in the 1921 World Series ... led to a problem and triggered another disciplinary action. After the series, Ruth played in a barnstorming tour. A rule at the time prohibited World Series participants from playing in exhibition games during the off-season. Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended Ruth for the first six weeks of the 1922 season.
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Most fans and collectors only knew Babe Ruth from black and white photographs. Ralph Morse, because he worked for LIFE Magazine, was the only photojournalist that day to have color film. GALLERY M was the first fine art gallery worldwide to present this photograph during the Ralph Morse photography show in 2002. Collect this today by calling 1.877.331.8401 or starting your order here
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In 1919, Ruth continued to split his time between the mound and the outfield, but at his insistence, began to pitch less and less. An anecdote from that season states that during the first game of a doubleheader, batting left-handed against a left-handed pitcher, he hit a home run over the left field fence; the White Sox players (who would go on to the infamous tainted World Series) were so impressed that between games they came in the Red Sox' clubhouse to speak with Ruth and ask him how the heck he did it. He belted a record 29 home runs that year, 4 more than Buck Freeman had hit in 1899 and 2 more than Ned Williamson had managed to amass under highly unusual circumstances in 1884. Ruth would increase the single-season home run record three more times, pushing it to 60 in 1927, and would hold it until 1961.
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The Yankees had high expectations when they met the New York Giants in the 1921 World Series, and the Yankees won the first two games with Ruth in the lineup. However, Ruth badly scraped his elbow during Game 2 sliding into third base (he had walked and stolen both second and third). After the game, he was told by the team physician not to play the rest of the series. Although he did play in Games 3, 4 and 5, and pinch-hit in Game 8 of the best-of-9 Series, his productivity was diminished, and the Yankees lost the series. Ruth hit .316, drove in five runs and hit his first World Series home run.
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One of Ruth's most famous home runs was "The Called Shot" in the 1932 World Series. View a video of The Called Shot here (although without seeing Ruth point): The Called Shot.
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