Babe Ruth

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a saloonkeeper, placed him in St. Mary's Industrial School

when George was 7. There he learned to play baseball. In 1914, through

the help of one of the priests who taught at the school, Ruth began to

play with the Baltimore Orioles of the International League. The

Orioles' manager, Jack Dunn, paid him 600 dollars for his first

season. Although Ruth later earned such nicknames as the Sultan of

Swat and the Busting Bambino, he got his most famous nickname Babe on

his first day of practice. A veteran coach sneered at the 6-foot-2

youngster, "Here's another one of Dunn's babes."

Later in the season he was sold to the Boston Red Sox. As his

batting prowess grew, he was shifted from the pitcher's mound to the

outfield, where he could play every day. Before he quit pitching, Ruth

had won 94 games and lost 46.

In 1920 Ruth was sold for 125,000 dollars to the New York

Yankees, whose stadium was later called the House That Ruth Built.

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