The toughest punishment Ruth received for misbehavior was a timeout from baseball. His mentor was Brother Matthias - "The greatest man I've ever known." The Babe, when he became rich, bought ...

What is it? Babe Ruth’s daughter knew. A news reporter once asked her why Brother Matthias had such an impact on her father. She replied, “When Babe was 23 years old, the whole world loved him.

Babe Ruth is known for many things ... crediting an instructor named Brother Matthias Boutlier with introducing him to the game. And it’s also there where Ruth apparently learned the basics ...

Harris, the veteran Babe Ruth Baseball Commissioner ... to play baseball under the strict tutelage of St. Mary’s Brother Matthias, a member of the Xaverian Order that ran the reform school.

except if you read the biographies of George Herman Ruth. “He was the greatest man I’ve ever known,” the Babe said of his monumental mentor, friend and baseball coach. Brother Matthias was a ...

In all of baseball history, is there a star who has been more celebrated and mythologized than Babe Ruth ... where Brother Matthias taught him baseball. At 16, Ruth was signed to a minor-league ...

The Sultan of Swat. The Great Bambino. The Caliph of Clout. Babe Ruth has been known by many names, including George Herman Ruth, Jr., which is the name he was born with on February 6, 1895 ...