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The field of his greatest conquests draws mourning tens of thousands

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

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

Fifth Avenue is silent as the Babe comes downtown.

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

and in public life, enter St. Patrick's.

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

Babe Ruth's funeral stopped a city.

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

more than three-quarters of a century later.

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

But George Herman Ruth was born in to a struggling Baltimore family

who eventually abandoned him in a Catholic orphanage.

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

signed Ruth to a contract and he became known as Jack's Newest Babe, a nickna Babe ruth personal biography!