If you could hop into a time machine at any time in your life as a sports fan, today would be the day. Sometime on the morning of July 11, 1914—the story goes it was around 10 a.m.—George Ruth got off the train he’d been riding all night with a Baltimore Orioles employee and prepared to begin his career in Major League Baseball. “Babe” Ruth was just 19—still a babe in … [Read more...] about Babe’s Debut: 100 Years Ago Today
Jack Dunn
Vintage Photo of the Day: Teenage Babe Ruth
He wasn’t The Babe yet. Just George; one of the students enrolled at St. Mary’s Industrial School. It was coming, though. His skill on the baseball diamond was impossible to miss, even as a teenager and soon he’d be discovered, signed to a pro baseball contract and sent on his way to immortality. The Vintage Photo of the Day is this image of Babe Ruth taken around 1912 … [Read more...] about Vintage Photo of the Day: Teenage Babe Ruth