Appropriate Behavior In George Herman Ruth's Brother Matthias

In continuation, George Herman Ruth would spend most of his time out of his household and school. In fact, he almost never attended school and frequently was found by truant officers who afterwards had taken him home where his father would beat him over and over. Young Ruth would not attend school due to the fact that his parents were always busy. Ruth endured through the punishment and ignored the admonition by developing an unacceptable behavior. At his young age, he would sip alcohol, chew tobacco, and occasionally was caught stealing making police visits more frequent. Ruth’s unacceptable behavior would only last so long that at the age of seven, in 1902, his father would pack a bag of clothes for him and then head towards St. Mary’s

In this orphanage, young Ruth learned how to read and write and also took tailoring classes, but most importantly, he learned how to swing a baseball bat. In St. Mary’s, Brother Matthias was in charge of disciplining over eight hundred of the kids. Brother Matthias was also in charge of the physical education for the kids and baseball was mostly played at that time, so he would make different teams with the eight hundred kids having around forty teams in that single institution. Young Ruth had spotted brother Matthias playing baseball and he stated “I think I was born as a hitter the first day I ever saw him hit a baseball. Brother Matthias was a very encouraging and appreciated figure in the institution because he sparked a sense of response in the kid’s souls especially in Ruth’s soul. Young Ruth began to fall in love and become skilled with baseball that brother Matthias noticed his ability and decided to further train him. In the span of a decade, in 1912, he became one of the greatest baseball players in St. Mary’s wining the schools championship. Young Ruth also did claim other small victories outside of St. Mary. George Herman Ruth in later years recognized brother Matthias as “the greatest man he had

Mary’s to see Ruth play baseball. Jack Dunn was the owner and manager of the small league Orioles. Jack Dunn had taken an interest on Ruth, so as a result Brothers Paul, Gilbert, and Matthias met with Jack Dunn to sign Ruth on a six-month contract in which Ruth would be paid a fortune of 600 dollars. Once he left St. Mary he arrived at the team’s hotel where he pursued the dream of becoming a professional baseball player. Since Ruth had spent most of his life inside St. Mary’s, he was not used to all of the things society had to provide. Jack Dunn had given Ruth five dollars for that month until he was paid and he was concerned over what he was going to eat, however, a teammate told him that meals were all paid for by the team. All the meals were free so Ruth developed wrong eating habits that his teammates were amazed at how much he could eat, while Ruth justified it by saying that “a guy’s got to be strong to play ball.” In another instance, Ruth acting like a child, would bribe the elevator operator just to allow him to go up and down over again. These were some of the things that young Ruth got to appreciate and