Helen Woodford Ruth
Helen Woodford Ruth (October 20, 1897 – January 11, 1929) was the first wife of American baseball player Babe Ruth and the adoptive mother of his daughter Dorothy Ruth Pirone, Dorothy. Ruth died in a house fire in 1929, the circumstances of which sparked controversy at the time and, to an extent, remains so today. Marriage to Babe Ruth Woodford, a native of South Boston, was sixteen when she met her future husband. According to Ruth, then nineteen, he met his future wife on the day he arrived in Boston on July 11, 1914, for his Major League Baseball, Major League debut with the Boston Red Sox. At the time, Helen was a waitress at Landers Coffee Shop, and Ruth said she served him when he had breakfast there. Ruth soon began to court Woodford and eventually proposed to her during a coffee shop visit a few months after their first meeting. Woodford accepted his proposal. Once the season concluded, Helen married Ruth on October 14, 1914, at Saint Paul Catholic Church (Ellicott Ci ...
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Helen Woodford Ruth
Helen Woodford Ruth (October 20, 1897 – January 11, 1929) was the first wife of American baseball player Babe Ruth and the adoptive mother of his daughter Dorothy Ruth Pirone, Dorothy. Ruth died in a house fire in 1929, the circumstances of which sparked controversy at the time and, to an extent, remains so today. Marriage to Babe Ruth Woodford, a native of South Boston, was sixteen when she met her future husband. According to Ruth, then nineteen, he met his future wife on the day he arrived in Boston on July 11, 1914, for his Major League Baseball, Major League debut with the Boston Red Sox. At the time, Helen was a waitress at Landers Coffee Shop, and Ruth said she served him when he had breakfast there. Ruth soon began to court Woodford and eventually proposed to her during a coffee shop visit a few months after their first meeting. Woodford accepted his proposal. Once the season concluded, Helen married Ruth on October 14, 1914, at Saint Paul Catholic Church (Ellicott Ci ...
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