Alan Steppe
Dorothy Helen Ruth Pirone was the daughter of Babe Ruth, the famous US baseball player, and his mistress Juanita Jennings (formerly known as Juanita Grenandtz).Sure, I can help you with that. What would you like me to do? Babe and his first wife, Helen Woodford Ruth of Boston, Massachusetts, adopted her. She wrote a memoir about her father called “My Dad, the Babe.”
Dorothy Ruth Children’s
Dorothy Ruth married J. Ralph Kelly in 1942 and they had two children together. Their son, Thomas Stevens Kelly, was born in 1943, and their daughter, Linda Ruth Tosetti, was born in 1946.
While Dorothy Ruth may not have achieved the same level of fame as her father, she played an important role in preserving Babe Ruth’s legacy and was a beloved member of the Ruth family.
