Babe Ruth started his baseball career
in Boston with the Boston Red Sox and ended his career in Boston with the
Boston Braves. His life has been chronicled in hundreds of books and articles.
His glory years were with the NY Yankees where old Yankee Stadium was known as
the “House that Ruth Built.” His life was filled with wild parties and
debauchery and didn’t settle down until his girlfriend and later wife Claire
Hodgson took control. He became a family man in 1929 with his new wife and 2
daughters. Dorothy was a biological child and Julia an adopted daughter that
was Claire’s child.
Claire was partial to her own
daughter and treated her with better clothing and schooling. Lou Gherig’s mother
noticed the difference and commented to people about it. It caused a rift
between the two players that lasted until Gherig retired after contracting ALS
disease. Ruth died from throat cancer in 1948 at the age of 53 just 13 years
from leaving baseball. His second wife Claire died in 1976 defending Ruth against
slandering references to his life until her death.
Dorothy married twice and
had several children. She died in 1989 at 67. Julia
is still alive approaching the age of 100. She is a Red Sox fan and spends half
the year in Sun City, Arizona and the other in North Conway, NH.
That is Dorothy on the left and julia on the right.
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