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A Short Biography of Babe Ruth

Author Name:

Babe Ruth

Born As:

George Herman Ruth, Jr.

Other Names:

Born:

6 Feb 1895

Died:

16 Aug 1948




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Baseball player                          
                          
Mother Kate Schamberger-Ruth
Father George Herman Ruth, Sr - only one of Ruth's seven siblings, his sister Mamie, survived past infancy.
Ruth married Helen Woodford in 1914. They adopted a daughter. They were reportedly separated as early as 1920 and as late as 1926. After they separated, Helen perished in a house fire in January 1929.
In 1929, Ruth married actress Claire Hodgson - two daughters, Dorothy and Julia.                          
                          
When he was seven years old, his parents 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.