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Babe Ruth was very significant to baseball. Babe Ruths real name is George Herman Ruth, Jr.Professional star Babe Ruth was very popular he had one sibling and was married to two people. When Babe Ruth was at a younger age he started to do bad things like chewing tobacco, drinking and a lot of other things that kids did not do and his parents did not like the things that he was doing. His parents sent him to St. Mary's Industrial School, he went there for 12 years. Learned a lot and he really did mesure. Babe Ruth was significant for his career, before baseball, during baseball and the impact he had on baseball
George Herman Ruth Jr was born on February 6, 1895 in Baltimore he was one of many children that his parents had, he skipped school,

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