Babe ruth biography video on george

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00:29The field of his greatest conquests draws mourning tens of thousands

00:33for a final glimpse of America's best-known, best-loved sports figure,

00:38George Herman, Babe Ruth, as he lies in state at Yankee Stadium, New York.

00:46Fifth Avenue is silent as the Babe comes downtown.

00:49His wife and daughter, along with scores of America's great names in sports

00:54and in public life, enter St.

Patrick's.

00:57Considered by many to have been the greatest baseball player to ever grace a field,

01:02Babe Ruth's 1948 funeral stopped a city.

01:05Ruth's career spanned 20 years and many of his records still stand

01:10more than three-quarters of a century later.

01:13The name Babe Ruth has come to be synonymous with sporting greatness.

01:17But George Herman Ruth was born in 1895 to a struggling Baltimore family

01:22who eventually abandoned him in a Catholic orphanage.

01:26When he was 19, Jack Dunn, the manager of the Baltimore Orioles