Babe Ruth: The Symbol Of Bambino

102 years ago Babe Ruth played his first major league professional baseball game.Babe Ruth is a famous baseball player known by the number 3. He was a left handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in July of 1914 and pitched 89 winning games before in 1920 when he was traded to the New York Yankees. After Babe Ruth left the Boston Red Sox, they didn’t win a World series until 2004. It was called “The curse of Bambino.”Babe Ruth was also known as “Bambino” which means baby boy in Italian.

He was born on February 6, 1895 to his parents Katherine Schamberger and George Herman Ruth Sr. in Baltimore, Maryland.

Babe Ruth changed baseball history when he set multiple records as a pitcher and outfielder. He held home run records for 34 years before being

broken again. Ruth hit his first professional home run on March 7, 1914. The Red Sox won three World Series in 107 seasons since Babe Ruth had been traded over to the Red Sox. Before that they had only won four World Series.
Babe Ruth hit more home runs than half of all baseball teams in 1921. Ruth hit fifty four home runs in addition to the rest of the 61 home runs hit on his team the Yankees in 1920. He hit 575 home runs in his entire career and only nine other baseball players have hit more than that since then, but four have been known steroid users.
Ruth had a difficult childhood since his dad worked at a tavern all day so mostly lived with his mom. He began to skip school and get into trouble so his parents sent him to St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys which was a school for boys who had trouble at home. At St. Mary’s Ruth studied to work in a tailor shop. Ruth developed his baseball skills while playing baseball with the other boys at the school. The other boys thought that Babe Ruth was so good that they sent a letter to Jack Dunn the manager of the Baltimore Orioles. After Jack watched Ruth play he signed him a six month contract for six hundred dollars.
In 1946 Babe Ruth was diagnosed with throat cancer. On June 13, 1948 he went to the Yankee Stadium one last time to retire his number,3. On August 16, 1948 Babe Ruth died at the age of 53.