Babe: Jack Dunn's Largest Babe

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George was so good at baseball that one of the monks invited Jack Dunn, owner of the minor league team the Baltimore Orioles who groomed players for the major league Red Sox, to come and watch him play. Jack was impressed and offered George his first professional baseball contract on February 14, 1914 at the age of nineteen as a pitcher. He got the nickname Babe because he was Jack Dunn’s newest babe. This nickname stuck with him for the rest of his career. He was soon moved up to the majors and played five years with the Red Sox where he won 89 games in 6 years. With them he was known more for his pitching than his hitting and became one of the best pitchers in the major league. They soon realized that he was a better hitter than pitcher and

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