Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 06, 2008
The Babe's Mother

On the anniversary of Babe Ruth's birth, a Baltimore researcher will erect a head stone on the grave of Katie Ruth, the Babe's mother. It's a fascinating story:

Curiously, her death notice in newspapers mentioned her sister, but no husband and no children. Still more peculiar, on the death notice that Harris found, Katie is listed as a widow, even though her husband outlived her by six years. George Herman Ruth Sr. was later buried in Loudon Park Cemetery, where his headstone mentions his second wife, but not Katie.

The forgotten woman is being remembered today.


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