Babe Ruth's Role In Professional Sports

Ruth had shown up in Boston on July 11, 1914 along with a few other players from the Orioles Egan and Shore. That morning Ruth went to Launders coffee shop and met a 16 year old waitress named Hellen Woodford who would soon become Ruth’s first wife. That afternoon Ruth won his first game he played against the Cleveland Naps were he scored 4-3. He also pitched to the catcher Bill Carrigan who was also the Red Sox manager. Ruth lost his second game and as a batter for the first time in the major league he went 0-2 and was removed the next at bat. This new recruitment was extremely overshadowed by the fact that the Braves had a legendary comeback that season going on to win the 1914 World Series championship. (BR3 Enterprises, LLC.2013) Egan was soon given to Cleveland after two weeks playing for the Boston Red Sox, during his time he kept an eye on Ruth to make sure he didn’t do anything rash. Ruth …show more content…
“Babe Ruth Story stated that that the young pitcher had a habit of signaling his intent to throw a curveball by sticking out his tongue slightly, and that he was easy to hit until this changed” (Appel, M 2012). The manger Creamer pointed out in an interview that it was common for inexperienced players to show traits that give away pitching strategies. July 30, 1914 is when the Boston Red Sox owner purchased the minor league team Providence Grays. The team was had been owned several times before by different people this allowed Ruth to play on that team for a while. Carrigan stated that he only sent Ruth to the team to help the Gray’s win the international league championship. Even though many believed that he was sent to improve as a player this was not the case. Ruth officially joined the team on august 18, 1914 and left the Oriels after deals were made to further his