Babe Ruth is known for many things. He’s one of the greatest baseball players of all time. His appetites — for food, booze, and women — were legendary. And his trade from the Red Sox to the Yankees in 1919, some say, put an 85-year curse on the Sox that wasn’t broken until they won the World Series in 2004.
But there’s one part of this beer-guzzling womanizer’s life, whose birthday is Saturday, that may come as something of a shock to many people: his deep and lifelong Catholic faith.
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