Babe Ruth · every age
What was Babe Ruth doing at 19?
Sent to reform school at 7, hit 60 home runs at 32
- Feb 1914
Signed by the minor league Baltimore Orioles at 19
The older players called him Jack Dunn's babe, and the nickname stuck.
Source: en.wikipedia.org - Jul 11, 1914
Major league debut as a Boston Red Sox pitcher
He won the game. He married waitress Helen Woodford that October.
Source: en.wikipedia.org
Others at 19
Portrait: Photo: Irwin, La Broad, & Pudlin (1920), public domain, via Wikimedia Commons · source
