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Helen Woodford Ruth (October 20, 1897 – January 11, 1929) was the first wife of American baseball player Babe Ruth and the adoptive mother of his daughter Dorothy. Ruth died in a house fire in 1929, the circumstances of which sparked controversy at the time and, to an extent, remains so today.
Claire Ruth at the unveiling of a memorial plaque in honor of her husband, Babe Ruth, at Baltimore's old Memorial Stadium (1955) Claire Merritt Hodgson Ruth (born Clara Mae Merritt; September 11, 1900 [1] – October 25, 1976) was a native of Athens, Georgia, United States, who is most famous for having been the second wife of Babe Ruth.
Dorothy Ruth Pirone (born Dorothy Helen Ruth; June 7, 1921 – May 18, 1989) was the allegedly biological daughter of the American baseball player Babe Ruth and his mistress Juanita Jennings (born Juanita Grenandtz). [1] She was adopted by Babe and his first wife Helen Woodford Ruth of Boston, Massachusetts.
In the film, Ruth comes from a small country town and has a loving home life, but in real life, he grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and spent most of his childhood in a reformatory. [5] In the film, shades of the 1984 baseball movie The Natural , Ruth cuts down a tree to make his own bat .
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Maxie Solters, a publicist, writer, actor and producer well-known to the entertainment community, died unexpectedly on Thursday. No cause of death was announced; she was 37. Born in 1987 and ...
Fein was known for taking human-interest photos, but he did take a photograph of Babe Ruth at the occasion of Ruth's number retirement ceremony in 1948. Fein received the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for the photograph which he titled, Babe Ruth Bows Out. Fein was married to his wife Lois and together they had one child named David.