Babe Ruth | Top 5 Facts

party animal heavy hitter and wild card here are five facts about the charismatic folk hero of baseball Babe Ruth fact one he was a wild child born in a rough area of Baltimore young Ruth ditched school and spent most of his time on the streets before he was 8 he was already drinking and chewing tobacco he was sent to live at Catholic form school st. Mary's industrial school for boys Wayne who's recorded to have not been suitable for a form factor he was believed to have performed miracles when 11 year old johnny Sylvester fell off a horse was hospitalized Ruth promised to hit a homerun for him he proceeded to hit four home runs in the series and visited the boy who eventually recovered from his injuries this led to the myth that the boy experienced a miraculous recovery as soon as the home run was hit fact 3 you can cash in with his rookie card the first baseball card fuku Ruth was printed in 1914 by the Baltimore News it shows a very young Ruth and was issued with a blue or red fron there were only ten known to be in circulation and in 2013 a red version was sold of four hundred and fifty thousand dollars fact for no team wanted him as manager Ruth had a strong desire to become a major league baseball manager and he unsuccessfully ran for the job of the Yankees manager several times he even threatened to leave unless he got the job the reason for this repeated failure can be summed up by Ed Barrow the Yankees general manager how can he manage other men when he can't even manage himself fact 5 nobody is sure how a guy's nickname Ruth had many nicknames the great Bambino the Sultan of Swat the Colossus of clout but the origins of his most popular babe are still not confirmed the accepted story is that our young and nervous Ruth followed his manager Jack Dunn everywhere and the other players in the Baltimore Orioles find this funny and said hey there's Jack with his newest babe so they have it five facts about Babe Ruth if you have any interesting facts about him please leave them in the comments below and if you want to see more videos give us a like and subscribe to our Channel thanks very much for watching and see you next time you