“Babe Ruth was a former major league baseball player widely considered to be the greatest baseball player of all time.” His birth name was George Herman Ruth, Jr. He was born on February 6, 1895 in Baltimore Maryland. His parents were George, Sr and Katherine Schamberger. They had eight children together but only two survived childhood, George and Mamie. His parents both worked long hours in a local tavern which left little time for parenting. George would run around the streets of the neighborhood and constantly get into trouble. He would skip school, chew tobacco, occasionally drink alcohol, got into fights, etc. “In general, he was a child, lacking the supervision and discipline from adults, who didn’t know better.” His parents soon
