Special Interest Article

Babe Ruth was a natural athlete

and lived baseball from when he

was young. At the age of seven,

Babe was sent to St. Mary’s

Industrial School for Boys

because he was unruly and hard

to handle. There, Babe grew up,

occasionally coming home, and

there, Babe learned about

baseball. Babe Ruth was a

natural baseball player. By the

time Babe was eight or nine he

was playing with the twelve- year-old team, when he was

twelve, he was competing with

the sixteen-year-old team, and

at the age of sixteen, Babe Ruth

was on varsity. On February 27,

1914, Babe left St. Mary’s and

went off to play for the

Baltimore Orioles. Babe Ruth

was eventually sold off to other

teams, and was on his way