All right, as we close in on the World Series and the end of the baseball season,

it kind of seems like the perfect time to look back at probably the most legendary player in baseball history, Babe Ruth.

Now, this guy was a wild man, an unbelievable player, but also a huge eater, drinker, womanizer, and troublemaker.

Plus, his path to the New York Yankees and the house that Ruth built was fascinating.

I'm Patty Steele, breaking all the rules and turning baseball into a massive payday.

That's next on the backstory.

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September is an absolutely gorgeous month.

Fresh air, blue skies, the start of the NFL season, and the baseball season wraps up

with the World Series.

But doesn't it freak you out that there are guys playing baseball for around seven months a year that make hundreds of millions of

dollars off of it? I mean, Juan Soto signed a 15-year deal with the New York Mets for $765 million.

That's $51 million a year, or almost $90,000 bucks each time he steps up to the plate. Now, ironically, in 2019, Soto won the Bay

Bruth Award, exactly 100 years after Bay Bruth was sold to the New York Yankees by the owner of the Boston Red Sox.

Sports writers say Soto's stats are similar to Babes and that he's on track to challenge all-time

records that are still held by Babe, two guys that changed the game.

Babe Ruth was born in 1895 in a section of Baltimore called Pigtown. Nice start. He was one of

seven kids, but only he and his little sister survived to adulthood. His dad owned a saloon

and wasn't much of a father, with Babe skipping school, running in the streets and drinking beer.

His dad said he ran out of ideas on how

to discipline the kid, who, by the way, was only seven years old. And so Babe then was sent to a

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