In 1941, a minor league baseball team in Baltimore, Maryland signed a young player from the St Mary's Industrial School for Boys, a school for Delingford Boys and Orphans.

Unbeknownst to them, that wayward boy would go on to completely transform the game of baseball

and become one of the most famous people in American history.

The changes in the sport that he ushered in can still be seen today and even a hundred years later

he is considered to be the greatest baseball player of all time. Learn more

about the legend of Babe Ruth on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. For those of you who don't live in a country where baseball is popular or if you just

aren't interested in baseball, this really isn't a

baseball story. To be sure, there will be a lot of baseball involved, but this is the story

of someone who came from nothing and managed to become one of the most famous people of

his era and in the process he completely changed and arguably saved the game of

baseball.

George Herman Ruth Jr. was born on February 6, 1895 in the pig town neighborhood of Baltimore,

Maryland.

His parents were both born in America, but all of his grandparents were born in Germany.

His father did odd jobs before eventually owning his own saloon.

His parents had eight children, but only two of them survived childhood.

Young George's first language was actually German but he quickly adopted English.

He was mostly neglected by his parents who were kept busy running the family saloon and hence George grew up on the streets,

became a delinquent, drinking beer, skipping school, and getting into trouble.

By the age of just seven, George's father didn't know what to do with his son anymore,

so he sent him to a reform school

known as the St Mary's Industrial School for Boys in Baltimore. Today it's

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