What happened to the compassionate and community-backed safety net that saved Babe Ruth? | GUEST COMMENTARY
When Babe Ruth was a child, he stole beer from his father’s saloon, joined fistfights in the schoolyard and wandered the streets. Regularly disciplined by his teachers in the classroom, he was what you might call “trouble.” All of this by the age of 6.
When he was 7, his parents gave up. They had him declared an “incorrigible” youth and then did what was obvious to parents early in the 1900s: They sent him to a reform school.
St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, just west of downtown Baltimore at 3225 Wilkens Ave....
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