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• Born George Herman Ruth, Jr. in 1895, Babe Ruth was one of eight children, but one of just two to survive infancy. The German language was spoken in the family’s Baltimore home, which was an apartment near the rail yards above the saloon owned by George, Sr.

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• Due to the long hours worked by his parents, the young George found plenty of time to get into mischief, and at age 7, his parents sent him to the St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, a reformatory and orphanage run by an order of Catholic monks, the Xaverian Brothers, where he would spend most of the next 12 years. Here he was recorded as “incorrigible” in the school’s records. Although it seemed like a harsh beginning to a young life, St. Mary’s strict environment and program of teaching vocational skills proved to be Ruth’s deliverance.

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• While at the school, George was trained as a carpenter and a shirt-maker. Even later in life, Ruth preferred to tailor hisown shirt collars.

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• One of the monks, Brother Matthias, was fond of George and became a father figure to the boy, working long hours with him on baseball skills of hitting, fielding, and pitching.

• Although school rules required Ruth to remain at St. Mary’s until age 21, at age 18, because he was the school’s best pitcher, he was allowed to leave the facility on weekends to play in community baseball games. At age 19, Ruth was offered a contract with the Baltimore Orioles by the owner of the team, who had watched him less than one hour before making his decision. Because Ruth was considered a minor, owner Jack Dunn acted as his legal guardian. The Orioles players referred to Ruth as “Jack’s newest babe,” and his nickname stuck.

• Within months, Babe was sold to the Boston Red Sox, making his debut in Fenway Park in July, 1914 as a starting pitcher. His first official major league home run was in September of that year. At the end of his rookie season, he married a 16-year-old coffee shop waitress he had met on his first day in Boston.

• Babe’s 1919 season with the Red Sox, in which he set a record with 29 home runs, would be his last, as he was sold to the New York Yankees for $125,000. Although he was an outstanding lefthanded pitcher, the Yanks groomed him as an outfielder. During his first season with the team, he shattered his own home run record, with 54 homers, with his closest competitor slugging only 19.

• The next season, 1921, The Bambino once again broke his own record, with 59 homers, with a batting average of .376. By 1922, Ruth could command a hefty salary, $52,000 a year (about $800,000 today), more than twice the largest sum ever paid to a player up to that point. Ruth’s salary was 40% of the entire team’s payroll.

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• The Yankees started their 1923 season in the brand-new Yankee Stadium, and Ruth hit the first home run there in the opening game. As the ballpark was designed with The Bambino in mind, it became known as “The House that Ruth Built." The right-field fence was closer, enabling left-handed batters to hit home runs more easily. Right field was also pointed away from the afternoon sun, in order to keep the sun out of Ruth’s eyes while playing his position.

• 1927 was a stellar year for The Bambino, in which he hit 60 home runs. For 1927, 1928, and 1929, his salary was $70,000. In 1930, Ruth demanded a three-year contract of $85,000 annually, equal to the salary of then-President Herbert Hoover. Ruth remarked, “…the President gets a four-year contract. I’m only asking for three.”

He was denied, and finally settled for a two-year contract of $80,000, (more than $1.1 million in today’s dollars), nearly two-and-a-half times the next-highest paid player.

• The mischief of Ruth’s early days seemed to follow him into his baseball career, as he was suspended from several games for bad behavior.

Jumping into the stands to respond to a heckle, showing up late for games, using profanity on umpires, and arguing with the league president earned him ejections, fines, and suspensions. In addition, his behavior off the field was wreaking havoc with his health.

• Babe’s played his final season with the Yankees in 1934. His age, his weight, and lack of conditioning had slowed him down and he was traded to the Boston Braves in 1935. At age 40, he played just 28 games of the season, hitting the final six of his record home runs for that team.

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• Boston’s sale of Ruth to the Yankees was highly criticized and resulted in a decades-long superstition known as the Curse of the Bambino. Prior to the sale, the Red Sox were one of the most successful baseball teams, capturing five World Series titles. Once Ruth was sold, an 86-year drought began for the Sox, while the Yankees became one of the most successful franchises.

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• Ruth’s homerun record of 714 stood for 34 years.

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• The Baseball Hall of Fame was established the year after Babe’s retirement, and he was elected as one of the first five inductees.

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• Ruth was diagnosed with cancer in 1946. In 1947, the baseball commissioner declared April 27 as Babe Ruth Day to honor the baseball legend. 58,339 fans were in attendance for the ceremony and speeches. The cancer had ravaged his body and the Babe had difficulty walking and could only speak in a soft whisper while sharing a brief statement. He appeared at the stadium again on June 13, 1948 for the park’s 25th anniversary, his final appearance there and the day his jersey was retired. Ruth passed away in August, 1948 at age 53. His casket remained on display in Yankee Stadium for two days, viewed by more than 77,000 people. More than 75,000 stood outside St. Patrick’s Cathedral during his funeral mass.

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• Director Cooper used the dimensions of a gorilla from the American Museum of Natural History as the draft In 1933, RKO Pictures teamed a for the model of Kong. A bust of the head, neck, and colossal gorilla with a tiny blonde upper chest was constructed from wood, cloth, ruband created “King Kong,” the first ber, and bearskin, while inside the figure, metal levers, film to utilize several new special hinges, and an air compressor controlled the mouth effects. Tidbits has the facts on and facial expressions. Each night the skins had to be this bit of monkey business! removed in order to tighten the hinges. The eyes were • In the early years of the Great created from glass and were 12 inches in diameter.

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• On May 1, 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City's Empire State Building. The building went up in just over a year, under budget and well ahead of schedule.

• On April 30, 1948, the Land Rover, a British-made all-terrain vehicle, debuts at an auto show in Amsterdam. The first Land Rover was made from an old American-made Willys-Overland Jeep and had a boxy, utilitarian design, four-wheel drive and a canvas roof.

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• On April 28, 1967, boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the U.S. Army, citing religious reasons, and is stripped of his heavyweight title.

Ali was convicted of draft evasion, but never served any of his five-year prison sentence.

• On May 2, 1972, after nearly five decades as director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover dies. By 1969 the media, the public and Congress had grown suspicious that the FBI might be abusing its authority. Congress passed laws requiring Senate confirmation of future FBI directors and limiting their tenure to 10 years.

• On April 29, 1992, a jury in the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley acquits four police officers who had been charged with using excessive force in arresting black motorist Rodney King. The verdict prompted the L.A. riots. The arson and looting finally ended three days later.

• On April 27, 2009, the American auto giant General Motors announced plans to discontinue its 80-year-old Pontiac brand. Initially known for making sedans, Pontiac gained acclaim in the 1960s for its fast, sporty "muscle cars," including the GTO, Firebird and Trans Am.

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In honor of National Pretzel Day on April 26, Tidbits presents the goods on this twisty treat.

• Pretzels may be a simple blend of water, flour, and salt, but there’s nothing simple about their history. There are several theories as to their origin, but the most common is that they were invented by an Italian monk in the 7th century. According to legend, the friar folded strips of dough into a shape resembling a child crossing his/her arms in prayer, then baked the dough in the monastery’s oven. Dutiful children who had memorized their prayers would receive one of the treats.

• It’s likely that pretzels derived their name from the Latin word “bracellae,” which translates “little arms.” The Germans modified the word to “bretzel.” Other traditions maintain that pretzels were first called “pretiolas,” meaning “little rewards,” for the children’s efforts in their prayers.

• Although some modern-day pretzels contain yeast, in the Middle Ages, unleavened pretzels were eaten during Lent, when Catholics were forbidden to eat certain foods. This led to pretzels being associated with Lent and Easter, and the twisted knots were hunted on Easter morning similar to today’s practice of searching for eggs.

• By the 1600s, the pretzel’s intertwining loops were a symbol of love, and in some countries, royal couples included pretzels in their wedding ceremonies to seal the marriage bond, an act that may have been the source for the common phrase “tying the knot.”

• German immigrants brought pretzels to North America in the 1700s, with many settling in Pennsylvania where they became known as the Pennsylvania Dutch. By the mid-1800s, bakeries were a common site in the state, with Julius Sturgis establishing the first commercial pretzel bakery in 1861 in Lancaster County. ...cont'd

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• Sturgis is credited with developing the first hard pretzels, which had a longer shelf life, enabling the factory to ship the product to outlying areas. The industry was so successful that pretzel twisting became the second-highest paying job in Philadelphia in the 1860s, paying two cents per hundred. Only tobacco workers made more.

• Pretzel production thrived in Pennsylvania, and it became the center of manufacturing and consumption, an honor it still holds today. About 80% of all American-made pretzels come from Pennsylvania, part of a U.S. industry worth more than $550 million annually.

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• In 1935, the Reading Pretzel Machinery Company revolutionized the trade when it introduced the first automated pretzel maker. Up until then, all pretzels were still formed by hand, at the rate of about 40 per minute. The machine increased the output to 245 pretzels per minute.

• If you’re an average American, you’ll consume about 1.5 pounds of pretzels this year – unless you live in Pennsylvania! Residents of Philadelphia consume about 12 times more pretzels than the average American. Philadelphia loves pretzels so much they have a special park devoted to the twisted knots. An area formerly known as Manayunk Park was renamed in 2004, dubbed as Pretzel Park, featuring pretzelshaped looped sidewalk paths, and a 6-foot-tall tall statue of a pretzel.

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• How about the world’s largest pretzel? That distinction belongs to one baked by El Salvador’s Industrias la Constancia, a company that, in 2015, produced a pretzel weighing 1,728 lbs., and measuring 29 ft., 3 inches long by 13 ft., 3 inches wide. That’s about 4,600 times heavier than an ordinary pretzel weighing about 6 oz.

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