How did Babe Ruth start playing baseball?
Babe Ruth was about 7 years old when he started to play baseball at the school his parents placed him in. St. Mary’s Industrial School (Baltimore), an institution for underprivileged boys is were he learned to play baseball, and he was good. He began to play semiprofessional ball in Pennsylvania and was signed by the Baltimore Orioles (International League) in 1914. That same year he was sold as a pitcher to the Boston Red Sox of the American League.
